Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unmarried gentleman wants acquaintance with nice young lady who can say yes to life. Purpose: enrichment of weekends in romantically situated weekend house...
Black-haired, dark-browed Gerard Graham Dennis seemed to have been born to live brazenly. He had a grenadier's imperious good looks, and a gentleman's taste in clothes. He liked champagne, dance music, danger and girls, especially brunettes with high cheek bones. He was endowed with intelligence and a barefaced talent for lying. He had no scruples against shooting a man, aborting a girl, or whacking an old lady over the head with a pistol butt...
Chipp, "The Gentleman's Tailor," at 73 1/2 Mt. Auburn st., may be evicted Tuesday in favor of a higher paying prospective tenant according to Jonas Arnold, the manager. He will take the case to court, and, in the event of a loss, will move his haberdashery to his other Cambridge store, Tweeds Ltd. at 33 Brattle...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...
Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...