Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music by Vernon Duke, produced by Albert Lewis & Vinton Freedley). Something of the comic charm of The Green Pastures pervades this new musical fable conceived by whites for an all-Negro cast. In it the robustly endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view of the audience, for his soul. Ethel is on the Lawd...
...Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse came to take him away. Then he kicked like hell...
...perhaps is more far-reaching than any other, for it may mean the preservation of the earth's last fortress of democracy. . . . Power is a heady wine. Few human brains can resist it, and certainly there has been no evidence, or even desire of resistance in the gentleman who seeks it now. He has gathered unto himself more power than any ruler on earth has, save in the totalitarian governments...
...characters in Mike's club these days. One thing leads to another. If vigorous steps are not taken, national scholars will soon be granted automatic membership in the Porcellian, Hasty Pudding will be holding competitions, and Harry's Club will be the last refuges of the scholar and the gentleman...
...county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity has finally come to roost in his poems...