Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peering Peeresses. Paced by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, M.P.s thronged the already crowded House of Lords (no King since Charles I has been permitted to set foot in the House of Commons). The lobby was packed with peeresses who had not been able to get seats. For the historic occasion many had brought along their children and governesses. An outraged House of Commons officer sourly viewing the breach of precedent, muttered: "This is blasphemy...
...books and drinking tea," but lounging around with "a fast set ... given to cards and tobacco (and) spirits." He always "wished (he) had never been born," and looked so abject that once, after he had conducted the Queen of Saxony on an official tour of the Post Office, her gentleman-in-waiting pressed a half crown into his grimy hand. When he was offered a transfer to a bleak section of Ireland, Trollope gratefully accepted...
...realize his vision of a country gentleman's everyday life, Trollope needed money; and his best way to make money was by making fiction out of his vision. He wrote for ten years, but it was not until the appearance of his fourth novel, The Warden, in which he first sketched the world of Barsetshire, that he earned anything from his work. His next novel...
...lanky, sullen youth turned into the beefy, bearded hunting gentleman-author who took a stubborn pleasure in denying that he was an artist...
...little oligarchy that had run the country for decades, Peruvians had swung left. But President Bustamante ("a short, careful step is better than a brilliant, audacious hop") was a moderate. Even Lima's El Comercio, organ of the powerful reactionary Miró Quesada family, hailed him as a "gentleman highly regarded by everybody and without enemies or opposition...