Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every knight of St. John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
...Paris, correspondents were asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
...timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. . . . A "bitter taunt" indeed! A cowardly taunt. The taunt of one who has forgotten the English Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another, be it individual or nation." I ask you and your readers to laugh at that letter, as the outpouring of a liverish and bitterly disagreeable person. . . . GILBERT TYNDALE...
...Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released...
...foreground is the judges' boat; beyond the Volant is one of the boats of the Union Boat Club. And the gentleman pullnig the extremely narrow one is Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet who is very partial to this manly exercise for which so city in the world has such facilities as Boston, the fine expanse of the Charles River being unimpeded by navigation and daugors incident to the passage of steamers...