Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inevitably, as the trading in rye got hotter & sharper, some traders got hurt. One of those hurt the most (he lost over $800,000) was Vienna-born Bernhard Rosee (pronounced Roo-say), a cosmopolitan gentleman who has traded on the commodity exchanges of Liverpool, Paris, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Winnipeg and New York...
...tender embrace, in the midst of which both the gentleman and lady are keeping one hand free to hold on to their spectacles...
...British field near here on the runway making repairs, and had as my commander on that job a group captain in the R.A.F. His family was 'in trade' in England, and his brother owns a pub in London. For my money he is the finest gentleman I've met over here in any army. There was not any rank between us; it was man-to-man on that job. But the men under him, the little civil servants in his command, were as near to perfect examples of the dry-rot in the British Empire...
...winter of 1859, Washington was rocked by the greatest scandal in its history. Negroes living on slovenly West 15th Street reported that a white gentleman, handsomely dressed in riding clothes, had rented one of their houses, and that when he flew a white string from one of the top windows a heavily veiled lady soon came tripping down the street and slipped into the house by the back door...
Before long, everybody knew that the signaling gentleman was U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key, son of the famed composer of The Star-Spangled Banner. They knew, too, that the lady was Teresa Sickles, daughter of an Italian opera conductor and lovely wife of the distinguished young Daniel Edgar Sickles, U.S. Representative from New York, lawyer, "Father of Central Park," Tammany man, former First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in London, and a descendant of one of New York City's most respected Dutch families...