Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elderly gentleman who guards the gate by Massachusetts Hall condescendingly delivered the opinion that Ickes might have meant well, but that the cars came pouring into the Yard as fast and furiously as ever, and if anything was ever really done about it, Harvard students would rot in their rooms rather than walk as far as the Stag Club...
...Gentleman Tailor, when asked why he was strolling so far from the madding crowd of bewildered registrants, calmly explained that he was just waiting till he was sure they were definitely in the institution before he pulled that line about giving them unlimited credit till June of their Senior year. "You may be an early bird," he beamed "but I prefer to be a smart worm...
Last week the second biggest news out of Vichyfrance (see p. 15) concerned the kind of man that Vichyfrance loathes and abhors: big, genial 69-year-old Edouard Herriot, three-time Premier of France, a generous, cultured, democratic gentleman. Recently secluded somewhere in Vichyfrance, he has not let Vichyfascism shut him up. He had the gizzard to contribute to the September American Mercury a nostalgic article extolling the French democratic tradition. Wrote he: "Among the memories which fill my journal, the most precious to me in these tragic days we are living through are the ones which bring back...
Added to the President's official family last week was another liberal with a gentleman's background. Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, as long predicted, became Attorney General...
...revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi of the Philadelphia Social Register pleaded guilty to vagrancy when put on trial, charged with running a high-toned bawdy house in Manhattan...