Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentleman farmer," nor are any of the rest of my neighbors who are members of this farmers' protective association. We mostly put in more hours for less pay than do those we hire. We belong to the Associated Farmers so as to be united in the defense of our homes against known Communists and their dupes, who have threatened us and are still threatening us. We need this or a similar organization just as laboring men needed their unions-to protect ourselves against injustice. Not every labor leader is a paragon of justice, any more than every employer...
...past years when the sole use of Uncle Sam's fleet was as a movie locale, it was quite natural for Harvard's Naval Science to be a gentleman's course--a refuge for the major H and the broad A. But today the Navy is steaming full speed ahead, while both instructors and prospective ensigns at Harvard still are dragging anchor. Almost the only ones taking the work seriously are a few martinets who aspire to minor posts of command in the annual review. And recent attempts to improve esprit de corps via beery conviviality are a poor substitute...
...calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends...
...temptation to let his camera linger longingly on this impressive and costly background. He hewed to the narrative of pretty Phoebe Titus (Tomboy Jean Arthur), the only white woman in Tucson, who earns herself a pretty penny selling pies for $1 apiece, then goes into the freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California to join the Union Army...
These lyrics with a piano accompaniment drifted out into the hallway of the Ritz Cariton as the CRIMSON reporter approached the rooms of Johnny Green and Harold Adamson, two young Harvard graduates who wrote the music and lyrics of the current Boston musical comedy "Hi-Ya Gentleman...