Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine father and one certain to make a GREAT District Attorney. . . . [He] may feel a bit peeved at our very rich industry, but that peeve, if there is one, would never be reflected in his office because he is entirely a too high type gentleman to carry a personal peeve into the administration of his duties." Dockweiler kept his peeves, if any, to himself...
...failure after Munich was less spectacular, but more costly. Not only was war hateful to him, but all military and naval matters were distasteful. When Hitler broke his word of honor as a gentleman and occupied the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Chamberlain determined that Britain must rearm. But he believed that rearmament would be used for negotiation, not for war. And so the rearmament of Britain was mostly on paper, and Hitler also knew that...
...save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later said, "Chamberlain had never met anybody in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf Hitler...
...lace Butterworth, who serve as interlocutors for the CBS show, Vox Pop. Together they have wandered up & down the land paying citizens $1 to answer such queries as: How many feathers on the average hen?* What was our President's name 30 years ago?† Should a gentleman remove his hat before striking a lady?**Along with this pert questionnaire, Vox Pop offers its listeners interviews with cinema stars, politicos, "typical Americans," statistics on the number of one-armed paper hangers, wooden Indians and wooden covered bridges in the U. S. Although its formula is a bit musty...
...Holyoke Bookshop, purveyor of radical and Communist literature, was the next occupant, only to vacate during the summer in favor of the Harvard Willkie Club which abandoned its headquarters last week. The latest development in a clothing shop run by Gieves, Gentleman's Tailor...