Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story starts in a London Club, and is told all night between bombs and sips of Marsala by a gentleman of seventy, quite unsteady on his feet. By chance he was fishing in the Jura Mountains when the Lowlands fell. He struck out for England in charge of the children of two English acquaintances, and on the way west he found it necessary to his conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately...
From Tokyo next day came an announcement : Wake was taken; it had been defended by 3,000 officers and men. To Jimmie Devereux-whom his civilian friends knew as an affable gentleman jockey, whom Marines knew as a studious, hard-fighting professional-and to the 378 Marines, alive and dead, of his command, the Jap had paid a fitting tribute...
...this is seen through the eyes of Pulham, which puts him in every scene and makes the picture slow, talky, occasionally repetitious. But Robert Young's version of the inhibited, frustrated, baffled Boston gentleman who didn't have guts or brains enough to get out of his rut and stay out is a first-rate...
...security. And through 96 years the Academy has educated its "young gentlemen" according to a prescription written by the nation's great naval heroes, notably John Paul Jones, who said that a naval officer must be not only a competent sailor but "a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy and the nicest sense of personal honor...
Thus Knoedler's (celebrating its 95th birthday) last week celebrated Royal Cortissoz' 50th anniversary as an art critic (for the New York Herald Tribune) with an exhibition of the pictures the twinkling old gentleman liked best in the whole...