Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held up until the courts ironed out NLRB decisions? Congressmen roared that the Jackson ruling sabotaged the whole defense program. Cried New York's Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
...comments. Admiral Decoux called the agreement "one of the greatest marks of confidence one country can give another." General Maurice Martin, Commander of the Indo-China Army, called it "the first manifestation of a durable friendship between France and Japan." In Vichy, Foreign Minister Paul Baudouin called it "a gentleman's agreement." Five and one half hours later the friendly gentlemen of Japan went to work killing the confident gentlemen of France...
...whole) of ignoring the time limits of debate, thus permitting windy colleagues to blow themselves completely out. (It is an ancient House joke that, when a flapmouthed member has exceeded his allotted five minutes by 15, the most John McCormack ever says is a soft, Irish reminder that "the gentleman has only one minute left...
...dispossessed shouted: "What about reprisals? These were our homes. What about Berlin?" The Churchill jaw set grimly, the underlip went out, and the Prime Minister growled: "Don't worry, they'll get it back." Later one of his colleagues said: "Churchill is a very full-blooded gentleman. Hitler has often mentioned the shortness of his patience, but Churchill's patience, as well as the British public's on this subject, now depends on a rapidly thinning thread...
...They gave her frightened mother about $500, told her to keep her mouth shut. The others were just run-of-the-mill jobs. One of them was so much so that the greasy killer couldn't for the life of him recall the victim's name-some gentleman from Connecticut...