Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metropolitan newspaper yesterday declared that there was a law forbidding a Radcliffe student to walk home from Harvard Square with a gentleman if there was a full moon. A statement from more official Radcliffe sources branded this report as so much moonshine...
...soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...conversation on a deck of an ocean liner. One (an obvious cad) says: "Of course, I hated to come home so soon?but I really couldn't bear to be in France while those American Legion rowdies are there!" To which the other (an honest and courageous gentleman) replies: "As I remember, you felt that way about it when they were there before...
Outside your magazine you print the picture of a benevolent, timidly smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...
Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...