Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, one quarter reported seeing a publicity-shy gentleman named Edgar J. Dies following two members of the Maintenance Department who were armed with suspicious implements of violence: two shovels and a rake...
Prayer. No one in British politics ever mistook him for the ordinary kind of politician. He was patently of a different breed, a law-abiding, churchgoing, public-spirited English gentleman of high birth. Such have their uses in politics. In 1922 he got his first Cabinet job as President of the Board of Education, first under Prime Minister Bonar Law, and then under Prime Minister Baldwin; in 1924 he became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries...
...Foreign Secretary. Even at the time of Munich he had the sympathy and respect of such men as (appeaser) Sir John Simon and (vigorous anti-appeaser) Winston Churchill. To all of them he was a sort of civil servant of the highest order. Winston Churchill recently called him "a gentleman, a fox hunter, a friend...
...Prime Minister's (No. 10 Downing Street) or in the House of Lords. He allows himself only about an hour out for lunch and the same amount of time for dinner. The rest of his day is work. It is no life for a fox-hunting gentleman, but to a man of his vanishing species, it is what one does for his country...
Thus Robert Henriques introduces the hero of No Arms, No Armour, which is the winner in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition for 1939 (sponsored by Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, various foreign publishers and the Literary Guild). As an officer and a gentleman, Windrush represents a tradition which causes the English distinct pride and a certain worry. Author Henriques worries over him like a maiden aunt. What is somewhat less credible, he makes him a subject of tender concern to his major ("Sammy") and to "Daddy" Watson, the hardbitten subaltern of the introductory scene...