Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...second play will be "Three Pills in a Bottle," by Miss Rachel Lyman Field, a graduate student at Radcliffe. The parts will be taken as follows: Tony, G. P. Baker, Jr. The Widow, his mother, Vianna Knowlton, 1917 A Middle-Aged Gentleman, H. Scholle '18 His Soul, E. Massey A Scissors Grinder, S. Crocker His Soul, J. E. Pillot Sp. A Scrub Woman, Beulah Auerbach, 1918 Her Soul, Evelyn Chard...
...important, perhaps, he presented to young men of an age when example counts quite as much as precept a conspicuous instance of what a soldier's life should be, a combination of clean living, clear thinking, and hard work that gave significance to the phrase "an officer and a gentleman...
...tests his patience at the Union. A music lover, however, suffers no such change in his program. This evening, he will renew his acquaintance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Dr. Muck. Enjoyment of the fine arts has not been "Hooverized." That much talked of, and mythical, gentleman, the average undergraduate, may satiate himself with music. To censor the series of concerts, of which this is the first, would add gloom to the gray days of a Cambridge winter...
Beware of the swarthy gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land...