Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into his room in an impressively efficient manner, and abruptly asked me what I was interested in. Having a vague notion that I liked Shaw and Galsworthy and Shakespeare, I murmured 'English.' 'Excellent,' my advisor snapped, 'you must take English 28. Good...
...slender, well-dressed young gentleman with the Rhode Island delegation will be William H. Vanderbilt, Newport society man, lately sued for divorce...
...three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite...
...gentleman's straw hat blew into the water, upsetting a sailboat. Yachts kept running into each other headon. In one race a blue sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...
...Helen Westley, Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders, Tom Powers. Production by the Theatre Guild. Nine acts complete with asides and soliloquies by Eugene O'Neill (TIME, Feb. 13). MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April...