Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rudolph's father, Emperor Franz Joseph, had only two interests as Author Lonyay sees it: 1) to design new buttons for his army's uniforms; 2) to design new agreements he had no great intention of keeping ("I cannot get the All-highest gentleman out of the habit of telling lies," his comptroller complained...
With all due reverence for all concerned, may I suggest the role of W. C. Fields for Mr. Herbert Hoover in any film based on the life of the former gentleman? Your picture, hat & all, in TIME, Dec. 13 [see cut], prompts this suggestion...
...GENTLEMAN'S PROGRESS (267 pp.)-Dr. Alexander Hamilton, edited by Carl Bridenbaugh-Chapel Hill...
...little historical importance. But it brings the speech of the time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City's "toapers" astonished and disgusted him), and never missed a pretty face or a stayless figure. If anyone could rile him more thoroughly than a long-winded bore, it was a religious fanatic...
...Count Folke Bernadotte, Christian gentleman, who gave his life in promoting peace...