Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
From each car came five men. Said one of them to the bank porter: "These gentlemen are going in the bank and you are going with us. Don't draw your gun or the gentleman behind you will riddle...
...lake the gentleman stepped into a little boat and was rowed over to the island in its center. Ducks quacked and splattered indignantly as he stepped ashore, entered a small concrete hut, carefully closed the steel door behind him. A few minutes later he emerged hatless, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow. Dr. Hugh Watts, Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Home Office, had just disarmed his 22nd postal bomb...
...plump gentleman in a black Homburg strode through the afternoon idlers in St. James's Park to the lake. Two wires were taped inconspicuously to the package in his arms; it had a harsh, germicidal smell...
...others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...