Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young People's Conference of the Presbyterian Church. Reasons: "A Christian gentleman . . . sterling character . . . dignified . . . high ideals . . . Protestant faith . . . Prohibition...
Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...late Sir James Thomas Walter Charles, commander of the Aquitania, as chief of the Cunard fleet. Said he: "I have a real sorrow to think that I could not fly the commodore's burgee while Sir James was still alive. He was a fine seaman and a gentleman. The commodore's flag I have was his personal flag. One of the last orders he issued was that it be given to me, for he knew I was to succeed him on his retirement. My coming here as commodore is not entirely a happy occasion." Rostron also lamented...
...parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed...
...sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired...