Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gummere will point out that boys at these "Grottlesex" schools are well prepared, but he and his committee have no illusions or misgivings about the frequently found product, the "gentleman's C man," as Gummere phrased it last year in a speech made at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Choate School...
They will surely make fine alumni, but the mass centering around the hard core of the gentleman's C are not in line with Gummere's other category of "the promising potential winner of scholarships . . . , an editor or Council official." Not that they should be in line--the complexity only makes the job of learning that much harder...
...benefit of all concerned, some readers have even tried to share TIME with their enemies. In this connection, I am thinking particularly of the war years and of an elderly gentleman named Thorwald Gustaffsen, a citizen of Stockholm, who, from 1936 until the war closed in on him in 1942, regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito...
...gentleman named Francis Woodman has a pleasant routine three days of every week. He comes from his home in Jamaica Plain, and walks slowly from the Yard to Soldiers Field, admiring the changes that time has imprinted on the undergraduate and the view. For Mr. Woodman was a Senior here when Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days...
...unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking me what do I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and strawberry sundaes." Says his old friend, Librettist Otto Harbach: "He is a real gentleman of the theater." Says the wife of one of his collaborators: "He seems to have everlasting arms to lean on in trouble...