Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since writing the above it has occurred to me that you might decide to go further into the directory business, and to save you from making another error I wish to advise you that there is a gentleman upon the Supreme bench by the name of Pierce Butler, whose home was also in Saint Paul. There is another gentleman in Washington by the name of William D. Mitchell, who is holding down the job of Solicitor General of the United States, who also hails from this village...
...destiny. He evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the final scene he gives himself up to the pursuers to prevent a clergyman from shielding him by telling a lie. He has been at various times in the piece a murderer, a thief, a beggar, but throughout a gentleman. His finer nature traps...
...play is short (out at 10:30) and chopped small in episodes. These waits weaken interest. Mr. Ames' excellent staging is not so excellent as usual. Mr. Galsworthy's thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto...
...Pont. "I want to fly as long as I can and die like a gentleman." So said Alexis Felix du Pont, son of the vice president of the du Pont de Nemours & Co., who entrained last week for San Antonio, Tex., to begin service in the army air service as a cadet...
...treaters need not have medical qualifications, that they may be laymen. It is best for a patient to have separate physical and psychical examinations given by different people. In a second section of this book Dr. Freud gives an autobiographical study of himself. He is a candid and tolerant gentleman...