Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown steadily in size and importance, until today it is the center of a large women's college. Attitudes toward Fay House have changed too, though the trend has been different. In 1819 it was called, "One of the most pleasant and eligible situations in Cambridge for a literary gentleman," while a remark heard the other day went something like, "A gracious house, sure; but it must be hard to heat." "Ireland's Folly," whispered Cambridge when the seemingly pretentious building was erected, and of course they were partly right, for within two years the owner and his social-climbing...
...Such shipments were not specially specified in the records," answered Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The House laughed good-naturedly. But the answer did not completely satisfy another honorable gentleman. "If there are any of the bottles left over," cried Communist Willie Gallacher, "will the Board President see that they are passed on to the miners in my constituency...
Here are some thoughts that passed through my mind while and after seeing "Gentleman's Agreement" in Boston. They're thoughts which have passed through my mind when I've had a chance to think, and I'm sure they've passed through the minds of a lot of other people under the same sort of circumstances...
...Gentleman's Agreement" depicts a true and pressing problem, but only one of the many problems we have to face. Bur nothing is done about them. People talk about them or write about them like this, but they either are afraid or too busy to help get rid of them...
...collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...