Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 1:45 and 4 p.m. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the greans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will...
...more escape Billy Rose ("I'm a ham-boned, hickory-smoked, and sugar-cured") than he could escape himself if he were locked up in a padded cell. One chapter, "Holm, Sweet Holm," tells the reader how wonderful wife Eleanor is, how she makes him behave like a gentleman, stops him from buying candied apples on sticks (because they have "nine million calories"), and even prods him into picking up porous fragments of Culture. Another chapter, containing warmed-over stories of the kind O. Henry froze into a formula, is called, modestly enough, "Move Over, De Maupassant...
...Gentleman. In Manhattan, Patrolman William H. Schneider, arrested for holding up a liquor store, explained that he needed the money to pay poker debts he had run up around precinct headquarters...
...education, says Conant, has failed to keep pace with the changing country. The leisure class and the "cultured gentleman" are gone, but as yet the schools don't seem to realize it: "It is as though a country parson [with] a small and homogeneous congregation should suddenly find himself . . . spiritual leader of the crowd that fills the Grand Central Station...
...only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...