Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no objection to criticism honestly offered about any of my books. But I object to attacks made upon me personally, with the whole object to belittle, humiliate and hurt me as a person. . . . I do not know how this "gentleman" obtained his garbled information about me, but I intend to find...
...vast body of American book-buyers and readers who, by the evidence of their letters to me, have bought and read my books. Your "critic," too, will amuse and please only the few of my personal enemies who resent my "success," and envy me, as does this gentle gentleman...
...Gentleman & a Student. When Zik leaves the U.S. in four weeks, he will join six other Nigerians in England for a barnstorming tour to tell the Nigerian story. He hopes to say a few words about his preference for the next Governor of Nigeria. If it must be an Englishman, Zik hopes it will be the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), whom he considers "a gentleman, a student of human nature, a man with a sense of justice." But in the long run he wants an African governor for Nigeria and, like the Pirates on the day he arrived...
Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox) is brought about by a well-beavered, somewhat pixillated old gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success...
...English rival of Punch once printed a cartoon of a man struck with amazement, and labeled it: "Portrait of a Gentleman Finding a Joke in Punch" Like some Englishmen, many Americans who have seen 105-year-old Punch are rarely amused by its jokes, even after laborious explanations. But last week, with its home circulation at an alltime high (184,000), London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly confidently invaded the U.S. market, intending to be laughed at, not laughed...