Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sell the kind of books I like, I might just as well be in the grocery business," said Mr. G. C. Cairnie, a thin-haired gentleman who runs the atelier-type Grolier Book Shoppe on upper Plympton Street. Cairnie's tastes, a hasty inspection of the shelves revealed, range from Aeschylus to Zweig, not excluding Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and Lewis Mumford. "Of course, I don't do a tremendous business," the attic entreprenur claimed, as he frightened off a young Radcliffe studen looking for a volume of Muzzey's "American History," slightly used, "but it's a living...
...Notorious Gentleman (J. Arthur Rank-Universal) is a British-made comedy which English moviegoers chuckled over last year when it was called The Rake's Progress. U.S. distributors have changed the title, on the theory that Americans might mistake the picture for a documentary on gardening (TIME, Aug. 5). U.S. censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just...
Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
Specific: Jungle Juice. He reacted by trying to be an officer and a gentleman and to enforce naval regulations all by himself-an effort both preposterous and doomed. The crew began to lay for him. It took a little while before a boatswain's mate, backed by eleven years' experience in the Navy and a specific known as "jungle juice," could get Mr. Keith squared away and settled into the routine of a naval auxiliary craft...
...Post . . . has so fallen in journalistic esteem that most New Yorkers would like to forget that it was established nearly 145 years ago by a gentleman, Alexander Hamilton. . . It is a vicious paper, reflecting mental turpitude...