Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had a clear impression of Lord Halifax. A Tory and fox-hunting gentleman, Britain's Foreign Secretary at the time of Munich, he seemed out of place in Britain's War Cabinet. Thus he appeared to U. S. citizens like the hero of one of those old-fashioned silent movies, where one man played two parts and was always capturing himself. He arrived dramatically, as Ambassador to the U. S., on Britain's biggest battleship, dropped after his first visits into diplomatic obscurity while the Lend-Lease Bill was being argued. Last week Lord Halifax came...
...these four days was the little Japanese, Yosuke Matsuoka, whose nation makes much of "face." If Hitler backed down before a Government of what his press called "democratic thickskulls," he would lose face in the eyes of Japan. If he went ahead, he might lose the war. Yosuke Matsuoka, gentleman that he is, refrained from discussing the week's news with his hosts, and at week's end set out for Rome, where there would be little to talk about either...
...Streets of London is a rich distillation of writings on London by Londoners of every century. Distiller Thomas Burke, who discovered Limehouse as a boy, is now 53, a gentleman of letters; and his book is sometimes a little fat-mouthed with life-ran-very-high-in-those-days antiquarianism. But his subject has recently become titanic...
Opposite the Earl was a gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman...
They Walk Alone (by Max Catto, produced by Ben A. Boyar) is the latest of the many dramas of British rural horror. The servant girl on an English gentleman's farm has dark compulsions to play the chapel organ in the middle of the night. The music stirs her libido and she thereupon lures young men out on the moors. There, after presumable orgies, her conscience apparently asserts itself. She murders her partners and, it would seem, commits on them certain unmentionable excess damages-the play isn't very clear about...