Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genially Bevan said: "The right honorable gentleman thinks that he is the leader of the Conservative Party." In a whisper like muted flutes: "But he is not, he is not!"-the inflection rising mockingly on each "not." Finally the crash of brasses: "He is their decoy...
...Bevan's voice there were echoes of sad Welsh valleys as he said slowly: "I am a miner." Then, louder: "I was brought up in a mining family in a mining area and a steel area." Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated...
...movie concentrates so relentlessly on Pinky's personal anguish that it achieves a haunting character portrait. Acting the role with an un-greasepainted face, Jeanne Grain seems like a morbid, almost marbleized Sleeping Beauty, bewitched by her conflict. Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan underlines the impression by having her walk with a dreamy gait, usually against the wind. As Pinky's washerwoman grandmother, Ethel Waters gives a powerful performance...
...INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1,043 pp.)-By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; translated by Samuel Putnam-Viking...
...addition to the dining and sitting rooms, the first floor contains a package room, where each resident will have a personal cubby hole; a reception room, where visitors will have a comfortable place to wait while the girl upstairs finishes "combing her hair"; a "gentleman's room" not to be confused with a "men's room"; and the usual entrance-drawing room which features a fireplace at each end. Finishing off the first floor are the apartments of Miss Edith L. Annin, Resident Head, and Miss Mary C. Small, Dean of Social Activities. An extra apartment also has been constructed...