Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That 30,000 U.S. workmen heard Lord Halifax and greeted him with thumbs up and a deafening roar of welcome was astonishing to people who have a doctrinaire view of the U.S. and of U.S. workmen. Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it. But to New Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about...
...soft-spoken Admiral Teijiro Toyoda to be his new Foreign Minister. Admiral Toyoda was once naval attache in London; he attended the 1927 and 1930 naval conferences and lost popularity in Japan for his part in the signing of the 1930 Naval Treaty. The Japanese describe him as "a gentleman of the British type." His appointment could be expected to arouse British and U.S. hopes of a rapprochement with Japan while Japan prepared for action...
...TIME yields to the gentleman from Tennessee, evidently a prodigious chronologist...
...German airman and a gentleman," answered the Nazi...
They were too late to help; Michael Edelstein's heart had stopped. The time of the gentleman from New York had expired...