Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clement Attlee, from the government front bench, "75 is not a venerable age. People seem to be able to continue for several decades after that-yet 75 does mark a distinct stage in one's life. I am sure that we all rejoice to see the right honorable gentleman in full health and activity, and wish him many more years...
...arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
Post tells of the time Lowell was wheeling around a corner on the left side of the road, had a head-on collision, and was forced to make a "gentleman's agreement" with the Registrar of Motor Vehicles never to do his own driving again, because "it wasn't fitting for a Harvard President to have his license taken away...
...circus' Gargantua, who resembles the gentleman pictured above. Gargantua died Friday and will be flown to the Elis' Peabody Museum after an autopsy...
Married. Darrylin Zanuck, 18, daughter of 20th Century-Fox's Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Gentleman's Agreement, Pinky); and Robert L. Jacks, 22, University of Southern California graduate ('49); in Covington...