Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a blonde was almost fatally suspected of knifing the gentleman whom she preferred (TIME...
...pamphlet was advertised in The General Advertiser in October 8, 1747, and in The Gentleman's Magazine. But the pamphlet completely disappeared until about 1900 when a copy was discovered in a volume of miscellaneous pamphlets. A facsimile was made from this, and published...
Commander Edward Breck, Former American Vice-Consul to Germany, and now President of the Anti-Steel-Trap League, made this statement, emphasizing that he was "not a sob-sister but a regular sportsman. Being a gentleman and a huntsman, to say nothing of being an officer, I feel that using a steel trap is atrocious...
Bang! Bang! BANG! The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was striking pon- derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...
That unsavory gentleman, irate because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...