Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
There seems to be a vicious attack arising from our fair school against a certain much-abused gentleman by the name of Peter I. Tschaikowsky. Indeed this tirade appears to be quite general throughout the country among the self-styled musical intellectuals. These gentlemen charge that Tschaikowsy's music is over-sentimental, superficial, and entirely without claim to immortality...
...Byron's ex-mistress, Claire Clairmont. "Like many professional libertines," says Author Quennell, "Byron had a deep regard for the domestic proprieties," distrusted Shelley's brand of radicalism-"all green tea and fine feelings. ..." But he was reassured when he observed that Shelley was "as perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a drawing-room." Soon they were having a fine romantic time together. One midnight Byron was reciting Coleridge's Christabel, had reached the lines...
...strange and rapid were his movements, so remote his habits-glistening, ubiquitous, and hard to capture." Trelawny did not discover that of him Byron had said: "If they could teach Trelawny to wash his hands and tell the truth, they would have some hope of turning him out a gentleman...
...Laborite Emanuel Shinwell rose to demand a de bate on the subject of Britain's aid to Russia. There was "considerable disquiet" in Britain, said he, over the amount and kind of help Britain has sent to her big, badgered ally. Snapped Winston Churchill in reply: "The honorable gentleman should not suppose that he has a monopoly of anxiety in these matters. I do not see any reason at all for an early debate. ..." Later the Prime Minister backed down, scheduled a debate for this week, but insisted no Government spokesman would speak...