Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Sapp. Arthur H. Sapp, 44, lawyer, thrice an Indiana prosecuting attorney, is a tall, light-haired gentleman, a mainstay of Huntington culture, a pillar of the Methodist Episcopal church. He attended Ohio Wesleyan and Chicago universities and Indiana Law School; is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. President Sapp, always dressed de rigueur, may often be seen, when affairs do not take him from Huntington, striding between the courthouse and his Jefferson street office. He is married, has one child, owns a motor...
...private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other by George Joseph Warner, a gentleman of 63 who looks, in his bat tie and wing collar, precisely like a modest bank president seen through brown-smoked glasses. George Joseph Warner is the road's crack and senior porter. His section is always the "first...
Rough House Rosie (Clara Bow) is moderately diverting nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...
This choice specimen of local inanity appeared last night in the columns of the Transcript as a portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...
...Fords, and a baby Renault from the steps of Widener than to move these creatures from the lap of John. They twine febrile arms about him while love clicks the shutter. They spill powder and musk about him while love says, "Dearie, watch the birdie." And like the true gentleman he is, John never grimaces. He merely waits for Monday...