Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious business of signing for military service had its lighter moments, however. At the upper end of the 20 to 44 age bracket was one gentleman who reported late at Memorial Hall, excusing himself on the grounds that he had already signed once in 1917 and had only come to the 1942 registration at the insistence of his wife...
...FIRST GENTLEMAN OF AMERICA-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart...
...first gentleman" of The First Gentleman of America is not Menendez but Nemattanon, Virginia Indian chief. Nemattanon learned the ways of the Spanish hidalgos, but returned to Virginia to protect his tribe from plundering, torture and slavery which the Spanish high-mindedly practiced. Despite their irreconcilable views, there was a grudging affection and respect between Menendez and Nemattanon, and they managed with some effort to avoid killing each other...
...1870s, the future Lord Randolph Churchill met three American girls named Jerome and promptly told a friend that he intended to marry "the dark one." Next day he proposed and was accepted. To his ducal father's natural question young Churchill replied: "Mr. Jerome is a gentleman who is obliged to live in New York to look after his business. I do not know what...
Kamins had wired the CRIMSON to bear the torch in behalf of his protegee, the petite cinema siren, whose optic-concealing hairdo has caused more barbers to close shop than the virtuosity of the celebrated gentleman of Seville...