Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Captain von Müller captured and safely interned, British papers saluted "the gallant commander who handled his ship with the skill of an accomplished sea officer and the courtesy of a chivalrous gentleman...
...Batchelder, W. C. Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...
...Commission introduced still another plan by reading a letter signed "Clifford Harmon, President of the International League of Aviators." Mr. Harmon was present to hear his letter read. He flushed very red when Baron Cushendun observed at the close of the reading: "I know nothing about the gentleman who wrote the letter, but everybody knows there are organizations with high sounding titles which, it is possible, consist of an office on the fifth floor and a letterhead. I think the letter itself of no value, but even if it were valuable I believe it very improper that an outside individual...
There are some perfectly harmless words which an English gentleman cannot come right plump out with. Reporters covering the Conservative Party keynote speech, delivered last week by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in Drury Lane Theatre, noticed that he paused perceptibly and shifted his shoulders the merest trifle in the middle of the following sentence: "I come now to the subject of [pause] maternity...
...dozen, were detained accidentally in the gallery, and formation of the procession in the Church, which they witnessed, constituted one of the most interesting and affecting scenes of the celebration. The marshal of the day called "the class of 1759." There was no response--the only survivor, a gentleman from Maine, being incapacitated from attendance. Successive classes were summoned; there was a hush over that immense concourse that would have made a footfall seem loud. At length "the class of 1744" was called; a feeble old man stepped forth, and passed along the aisle alone. A reaction was experienced...