Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports Afield can thank the Saturday Evening Post's Editor Ben Hibbs for much of its good hunting. Four years ago when the magazine was shopping for a new editor, Hibbs recommended husky Theodore Resting of the Country Gentleman staff who was equally at home in an editor's chair or the saddle...
...minutes for the 4.7-mile trip to the News Leader building in the heart of Richmond, and that's what it takes. As he rolls past the handsome statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, he gravely raises right hand to forehead in salute to the "great gentleman" whom he considers the finest man the South has produced. "I shall never fail to do that as long as I live...
...Martin Dies--not Dickstein--who was picked to head the new committee. The gentleman from Texas, who coyly termed himself "president of the House Demagogues Club," assumed his responsibilities in no uncertain fashion. During the next seven years, he kept himself splattered over the front pages, got into ruckuses with everybody from Walter Winchell to Mrs. Roosevelt, and set a pattern of conduct followed faithfully by his successors...
...mules of varying sizes were on hand to represent the Army along with three Cadet riders. The long-earned creatures were apparently not up for the game. They were momentarily confused by the number of Harvard musicians vying for the spotlight, and thrown into a panic by a costumed gentleman from a local comic publication...
...character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George "What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds: "Laying aside my solitaire for a moment...