Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russell Bowie, ex-prex of the Lampoon and son of a CRIMSON president, disgraced his father by ending the evening with a distinctly mediocre score. Bowie made a brilliant start but became rattled after he had identified "Diamond Jim," "Big Jim," "Gentleman Jim," and "Lord Jim" as a certain well-known local character...
Conservative Party Leader Winston Churchill last week appointed the Rt. Hon. James Gray Stuart, M.P., a tall, well-built, soft-spoken gentleman of 43, with a handsome face and a toothbrush mustache, to be Conservative Chief Whip of the House of Commons at a salary of $12,000 yearly...
...France he was something of a boy wonder. Before the age of twenty he had swept the amateur ranks to emerge as foil champion. Then for two years he taught the French army artillery officers how a gentleman should handle any or all of the three weapons. In 1909 he came to the United States, but he did no fencing until 1922, when he joined the New York Fencing Club. In that one year he achieved the unprecedented feat of rising from novice, to junior, to senior champion. The climax came in 1928, when he successfully defended the United States...
Leach condemed those who had faith in our embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter remarked, "Boy, what a question-asker...
...editorial further stated that Naval Science was a "gentleman's course" and a "refuge for the major H and the broad A." It was also stated that attempts had been made to improve the esprit de corps "via beery conviviality." Since the beginning of our Navy, an important requirement for an officer has been that he be a gentleman. The R.O.T.C. trains officers...