Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your treatment of the Democratic side of the present political campaign is to my mind grossly unfair. All Democratic leaders are referred to as bosses, and that elevated and altruistic gentleman, William S. Vare, is respectfully designated Senator...
...Under the middle chandelier stands a stocky, pale gentleman in faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat...
...than in England therefore there is no base for such an assertion. Both Miss Terry and Irving deplored the fact that England did not appreciate Booth and when he failed there most pathetically, Irving made Booth act in his theatre and share his honors as the great artist and gentleman he was. This as a beau jeste to Americans whom he was most grateful to and has never tired of acknowledging that same great debt. No! No! No! Ellen Terry did not "detest" American audiences. It is sacrilege...
Sirs: I have received and have read through with a great deal of pleasure the three books which I ordered from TIME on the recommendation of your Mr. Ben Boswell. Will you please tell me more about this gentleman? My tastes and his seem to be very similar, and my curiosity is aroused. May I ask his age, if that is not too personal. And is he a descendant of the great James Boswell, the disciple of Dr. Samuel Johnson? When my brother and I are in New York, next November, I would like Mr. Boswell to come and dine...
...story of Forgotten Faces was written by Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, and by Oliver Hazard Perry Garrett, onetime crack reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both...