Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unmitigated wallop off of such letters as the Alphabetical Englishman Dillington-Dowse - or whatever his name was -and the gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched...
Tully's Reply Sirs: A letter appeared in a recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that...
...President unveiled in the Botanical Gardens a statue of Major General George Gordon Meade, "gallant soldier and Christian gentleman," hero of Gettysburg. (Pennsylvania gave the statue...
...bell which that name rings in the mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge...
...condemned as a "frivolous" act. "I would be ashamed to commit it!" said he. "Although I am the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial], I am proud to proclaim that I am an honest man and a perfect gentleman...