Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having served as janitor of Claverly House for 53 years, James J. O'Brien was replaced last week under the University retirement plan. The 75 year old gentleman, familiar to three generations of College students as "Jimmy Claverly," is taking a short rest...
...Crump is a fine Christian old style Southern gentleman...
...Court. None of these traders was as powerful as Cargill. But one of them, Chicago's Robert W. Buckley, a well-heeled gentleman farmer and trader who had sold short, decided that he, too, would go to court. He persuaded Federal Judge William H. Holly to convene court nearly 45 minutes early on the day that the second ruling was to take effect, won a temporary restraining order against the Board of Trade...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...
...heavy going, become deftly funny. The whimsically dizzy heroine, who leaves her hoofprints in the ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...