Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler was, I am." But it was no use. He became a fat, olive-skinned man with heavy jowls and mean little eyes which made him look like a stockbroker when the market is bad. He was crushed to hear himself described one day as "a rather harmless old gentleman...
...Albert Schweitzer's schoolmates looked on him as "a sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then on, Albert's broth tasted flat. And as he grew up to find that...
...Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman, is a gentleman and a scholar, and no man to let Labor...
...Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck in a polemic against anti-Semitism (TIME...
...outsold anything he had ever written, including much better novels. Kingsblood Royal, his 19th novel, a crudely black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...