Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father-to-Son. Thus the Cabinet and the generals were well pleased when Neville Chamberlain picked as his new War Secretary last week a man of character and a great gentleman, Mr. Oliver Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby, who was Secretary of State for War in 1916-18 and again in 1922-24. If the time is coming to send Tommy Atkins to glory, death and victory, quiet Mr. Stanley, who won the Croix de Guerre in hot fighting on the Western Front, will not hold the Army back. Neither will he go-get. That is practically guaranteed...
...undergraduates came to know John D. Merrill. More's the pity. Now that he's gone it's hard to think of a man who typifies so well the true Yankee, Harvard gentleman. Wise, modest, matter-of-fact, for a half century he wrote politics for New England in the Boston Globe, and for almost as long he edited the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
What happened at the Fourth of July celebration, 1779: "Gen. 1 Poor made an Entertainment ... 87 Gentleman ware present at dinner, after which the 13 following Patriotick toasts ware drank, 1 t 4th of July 76, the ever Memoriable Eara of American Independence 2 d the United States 3 d the Grand Counsel of America 4 th Gen. 1 Washington & the Army 5 th The King & Queen of France 6 th Gen. 1 Lincoln & the Southern Army 7 th Gen. 1 Sullivan & the Western Army 8 th May the Counsellors of America be wise, & her Soldiers Invincible...
...first important press-agent job was handling Broncho Billy Anderson, the cinema cowboy most in favor before the days of Tom Mix. Since then, Maney has press-agented some 90 shows for virtually every big producer on Broadway and for such oddities as a colored gentleman "a year removed from a treetop in the Congo." He has publicized such hits as The Front Page, Coquette, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Sailor Beware!, The Children's Hour. Says he from experience: "I have yet to find an actor, producer or stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among...
...means. It's great Goodman and great jazz--and we don't mean maybe. Get a load of the guitar solo in the middle by Chris Christians. The gentleman has one of the most original styles we have hit in a long time...