Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that same Friday eve-at a rather liquid point in the proceedings-we were seeking a domicile, the number of which was rather obscure. Inquiry was made, at a house in the neighborhood, of a Southern gentleman, who looked so at home beneath the lithograph of the Charge of The First Maryland Regiment At The Death Of Ashby, that he obviously lived in this confederate fort. "What number is this house," we asked. "Man," his polite rejoinder echoed, "I reckon I don't rightly know...
...exhibited at the Academy in 1936, and the Academy's award-winner of the year, showed that Belcher's realism was of a far more literal sort than Ben Shahn's. Belcher once described the painting as "a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see how he has been enjoying himself-there are heads and tails of herrings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk...
...liquor ads have ever appeared in the Curtis magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman). Not that Curtis is anti-liquor. "All of our directors," President Walter D. Fuller once informed a Curtis Publishing Co. stockholder, "serve liquor moderately in their homes." But liquor ads, Curtis figured, would hurt its readership among church, school, farm and women's groups who never touch the stuff...
...South is still not a problem in the educational temple of Virginia. In the written recollections of one graduate of 1900 is a kind word for janitor Henry Martin-"his manner is urbane and dignified and his probity perfect-in short he is a fine old colored gentleman...
...story, fondly referred to by veteran script-writers as "Plot No. 3," concerns a lady on her way to marry a wealthy gentleman described by her father as being "as old as I am." However, before reaching the altar she encounters a storm and a naval officer and each has an equally turbulent effect upon her. Fortunately it's not as trite as all that, for Wendy Hiller portrays Joan Webster, the calculating wonan, with a poise and effectiveness that makes much out of not much of anything. Roger Livesey and the supporting east also contribute an occasional worthwhile moment...