Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done a civic service, or as one who had accepted hospitality and then flouted its rules. Senator Smoot, similarly, was viewed either as a dry-voting hypocrite who had kept mum, or as a gentleman who had not gone out of his way to impose his public character on a private party he "cannot call to mind...
...modest and a conservative gentleman, Mr. Smith does not give out pictures, interviews, discussions of topics of the day. He graduated from Yale in 1895, went into the Harris, Forbes organization, worked gradually...
...those whose special interest is first editions, the Treasure Room contains the first "Paradise Lost" of Milton and the signature of Milton himself in a book "belonging to a Swiss gentleman...
Teased by reporters, Mr. Calhoun inquired: "Who is F. Scott McBride? I've never met the gentleman. ... I guess we'll have to find out just who Mr. McBride is and exactly who he thinks he is. That's the way I feel about...