Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...
...Miami, where Bittelman and wife lived quietly in an expensive apartment, spending most of their time reading on the lawn, neighbors were floored. Said one of them: "He was a very nice gentleman, very timid." The Department of Justice thought differently. It charged him with advocating the violent "overthrow of the U.S. Government," released him on $5,000 bail...
...Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...
Head Master Arnold set up a theocracy, with himself as Jehovah and the Sixth Form (oldest) boys as the Judges in Israel. He was convinced that education's primary task was the making of a Christian gentleman, not the development of an intellectual. Arnold did his part: searing sermons in chapel about evil and temptation, a terrible eye fixed on the "Close" (school grounds) beneath his window. Arnold's Rugby was the Rugby of "fagging" and Tom Brown's School Days...
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 34, gentleman-farmer great-grandson of Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, great-grandson of the late Wall Street Plunger Jay Gould; of an accidental gunshot wound; in Oakley...