Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Major Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
...John Roy Carlson's "Under Cover." Tracking them down, one finds the patriotic Mr. Steele being buddy-buddy with such fine un-Americans as Joseph S. Kamp, editor of a fascist sheet hailed by the Nazis, the seditionists James True and Liz Dilling, and John B. Snow, the "gentleman fascist...
...trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through his life, while she, admittedly without a heart, breaks the heart of every man who falls for her. Meanwhile, an anonymous person has given Pip money to go to London and become a gentleman, and then his adventures start in earnest...
Welcome once more agreeably. I must tell you in due course of my loveable colleague Juan Gomez, who will devotedly conclude with you unspeakable preferences in the matter of: soap, matches, silk pyjamas (for any gentleman's Mrs.), jewelry, oranges, cigarettes, brilliantine (most desirous), also all manner of especials. Great news if you are always in virile way of living since we made merry commonly in the pasture...
Your humbly adoring accomplice, Sir Jerome Lascelles (High Gentleman...