Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abuse in a period of emergency may force the U.S., to all intents & purposes, to get along without Congress. The President then has to get things done by proclamation, by persuasion, by the use of his prestige, by indirection, subterfuge, circumvention. How to save Congress? Said Lippmann: by a gentleman's agreement to abandon the filibuster on questions of national defense and foreign policy during the emergency. "All that is required is that Senator Wheeler and Senator Nye and two or three others agree to debate their views on the floor of the Senate and then-without filibustering...
...Speaker's gavel pounded the desk. Cried the Speaker: "The time of the gentleman from New York has expired!" But thin, grim Representative Mike Edelstein, fighting mad, talked...
...writing to me, about your bad Spelling; for, in my Opinion as our Alphabet now Stands, the bad Spelling, or what is call'd so, is generally the best, as conforming to the Sound of the Letters and of the Words. To give you an Instance: A Gentleman receiving a Letter, in which were these Words,-Not finding Brown at horn, I delivard your meseg to his yf. The Gentleman finding it bad Spelling, and therefore not very intelligible, called his Lady to help him read it. Between them they pick'd out the meaning...
Issuing from their isolated Mt. Auburn Street tomb late last night, a dozen gentleman witsters invaded Shepard Hall, home of the Crimson Radio Network, and broadcast their own version of "a Hitler invasion of the Dean's Office...
...hovered over the fuddy-duddy Transcript, even Boston's hard-boiled reporters were moved to respectful silence. Nostalgia as well as wryness colored the telling of the most famed Transcript legend-that of the butler who announced to his mistress: "There are four reporters here, madam, and a gentleman from the Transcript...