Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love, for Wealth, and for the Blessing of Procreation, to you I offer Devi Sharmista." When news of these words reached the bride's grandfather, Mr. Louis Schaefer, in Seattle, he exclaimed: "I'm sorry I wasn't there to give Nancy away. . . . That is a gentleman...
...face of Dean Hanford's figures and the long recognized problem of the two factors--the real and the "gentleman" student--it may be safely supposed that the next step in education is logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level...
...your Feb. 27, 1928 issue p. 24 under SPORT your correspondent was not very observant or informed. Meadow Lark Fearnot is a lady beagle not a gentleman and it is most doubtful if she would have "enjoyed biting a small girl who sat" etc., as whatever their faults may be it is hard to find more docile creatures than beagles. I speak from experience, having a pack of twelve couples (one of which got "best beagle-under 13" at this show...
...Were Single. A sportive and decorative quartet of players make gay this comedy of a gentleman who picks yellow buttercups outside the marital fence. Ted (Conrad Nagel) and May (May McAvoy) were married only a year when a brunette (Myrna Loy) crinkled her eyes at him, and he temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...
EDEN-Murray Sheehan-Dutton ($2). "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" The gentleman was Author Murray Sheehan who, so intimately has he delved into the domestic relations of the primates, must certainly have been there. This book, although it lacks the lightness of famed John Erskine...