Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenneth McKellar, President of the U.S. Senate, last week temporarily yielded his chair, stepped down to the floor and informed his astonished colleagues that he had solved the problem of the bomb. Outlaw it, said the gentleman from Tennessee...
Peace. In Seattle, evidence of the expanding labor market appeared in a Post-Intelligencer ad: HELP WANTED, MALE-REFINED, RELIABLE GENTLEMAN TO CLEAN TOILETS...
...water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila still housed some fifty Filipinos. One is a one-legged tailor who has established his shop right inside the front door; another is an elderly gentleman whose sole possessions seem to be twelve 300-pound anchors...
...first explosive announcement since becoming Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 1). He had completed a personal investigation of 57-year-old Colonel Theodore Wyman Jr., the Army's district engineer in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and found him a fit officer and gentleman...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, 43, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by X ray in 1931, Lloyd's of London promptly upped its rates on insurance against twins...