Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yaaah! In San Jose, Calif., a woman left her dentist with her completely toothless mouth painted a bright purple, spotted a gentleman friend outside and playfully gave him a great big purple yawn, felt rather foolish when he turned out to be a total stranger...
With alarm, the Daily Mail's Correspondent G. Ward Price reported that the horrid word "spiv" was "on every lip." He thought that it had something to do with people observed carrying large sums of cash, presumably to dodge taxes. A gentleman sardonically signing himself Sam Johnson asked in the Daily Telegraph: "Is 'spiv' . . . an abbreviation; if so, of what? Is it an importation; if so, from whence? Or is it perchance compounded from initials-'Social Parasites in Vehicles' . . . or the 'Society for the Promotion of Illegal Ventures...
...Late starters: Gentleman's Agreement, still shooting at Fox; Earth and High Heaven, written but postponed at Sam Goldwyn...
...novels with a great deal in common perched last week at the top of the best-seller list: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal. Both were earnest, pamphleteering tracts on the U.S. race problem. As novels, they were not very good. Below them, the fictional bestseller list was studded with historical novels of a type which has become so standardized that even their book jackets look alike: an open-bosomed beauty in the foreground, a frigate in the distance...
...luxurious summer home and an equally luxurious winter home--both belonging to an ulcerated millionaire. Moore, however, reversing the usual custom, resides in the tycoon's town house in New York during the winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes her to the Fifth Avenue residence in mid-winter, the happy hobo could have continued indefinitely his surreptitous seasonal migrations...