Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward, 33, eldest of the four brothers, and George, 25, the youngest, were accompanied by a plump gentleman in morning clothes and a high silk topper?Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had brought with him his wife. (TIME, March 14). Because Canadians have been visited four times by Edward of Wales, but never before by a British Prime Minister in office, interest continued last week in Stanley Baldwin...
Husbandmen of northern New York State await, with an interest more vicarious than immediate, the results of an expensive experiment reported last week at the farms of Donald Woodward, gentleman farmer of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
...SANDHILLS? Antony Marsden?A. & C. Bom ($2). John Creed, perfect English gentleman, calls late at night upon a Mr. Murgatroyd to punch his head for a card game insult. Mr. Murgatroyd drops dead after taking a right to the chin. A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides...
...Sure you can," said a stout gentleman. "Be calm. Just go ahead and 'tend to Mr. Flinn...
...land of China is so troubled and war-torn that only one prominent Occidental is known to have traveled there extensively within the present year. This gentleman is U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. He completed last week a tour which his influence and his wealth have enabled him to push far into the interior. Moreover, Mr. Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow. When the Senator emerged at Shanghai last week his mind held a panoramic picture of China in which each element...