Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime (1943) flight to Moscow. It was the first time he had ever been in an airplane, and he was being shown the emergency escape panels in case the craft had to come down on water. Related Hull: "The fact of several exits reminded me of the old gentleman in Tennessee who kept three cats. A friend, visiting him one day, noticed three large semicircular holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked. 'To let my cats out,' was the reply. 'But why won't one hole do them...
...since been stopped, the beer drinker has not been neglected, and the O.G. has all kinds; bock, stout, and a varity in Cambridge, porter in bottles. Porter, by the way, is a weak stout, and is as satisfying to the beer drinker as a gut course is to the gentleman...
Many Congressmen were out politicking. Before they left Washington, they had reached a tacit gentleman's agreement that not much serious work would be done in Congress while they were gone. The little that did get done was right in line with the election-year emphasis on economy and tax cuts...
...voice of Nemo belongs to a studio announcer (Phil Tonken), but the words come from 68-year-old Charles S. Partridge, who is a prophet by avocation. Partridge is a bashful, thermometer-straight, sparse-haired little old gentleman who makes his living as a copyreader for the Wall Street Journal. Ever since he was a boy in Selma, Ala., Partridge has had a countryman's healthy interest in the weather. About 25 years ago he decided to get a scientific background. For five years he visited the Weather Bureau every day, and read hundreds of meteorology books...
...Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century...