Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cunard: "The gentleman's suite is in readiness. I suppose you wish the usual arrangement...
...Wall: "The gentleman will arrive a little before eleven. We shall have several of our men on the pier...
There are genteel murmurs, Jewish gestures. The murmurs ask: "How much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley...
WILL someone HELP gentleman, 30, ex-service; no income: ill, severe neurasthenia; with cost of treatment??Write Box D.1761, The Times, E.C.4...
...Boston. Perhaps the next four years of Republican rule may even bring a new post-office building to replace that antiquated structure whose granite is still chipped by water that fell on it during the great fire of 1872. And in this matter of repaying loyal party workers, no gentleman in public life, however aggrieved by elections or other petty matters, would demean himself by similarly dampening the Roman candles of this Republican triumph...