Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph shown in conjunction with your P. M. A. article makes me think you have the Prince confused with his sparring partner. When did the noble gentleman shave his heavy black mustachio off? J. FRANZ FISHTER...
...Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked the Tulsan. In expiation to outraged Waconians...
...burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered it to be inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress was Marvel Crosson. Last week as some 1,600,000 copies...
...British Museum can also raise $165,000 within a year and pay that to Mr. Morgan, they can also keep the famed Bedford Book of Hours, also purchased last week for the quiet, cultured gentleman whose office is at No. 23 Wall Street...
...success, claimed it established their superiority in brain as well as brawn. Pious folk, disregarding the regional aspect, rejoiced and quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle and grandfather, both scholars, are also plant breeders, interested in science; 3) Winner Huston, unlike most of the candidates has traveled extensively, following...