Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kind Gentleman. In the homestretch, the campaign had been spotted with Zwischenfälle (incidents). A tear-gas bomb drove Communist Max Reimann from his rostrum; bullets breezed past Socialists in the Ruhr. Some swastikas appeared, some Sieg Heils resounded...
...tells us how his party can end unemployment, how he can get us houses." The Germans were quick to pick up electioneering tricks. Outside one polling place well-scrubbed German moppets happily clutched colored balloons proclaiming, "Vote for the Socialist Party." Explained one little girl: "Some kind gentleman came up and gave them...
...widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh, who was, he said, an inventor...
...chairman of the Item's board of directors-"a, synonym for retired old gentleman"-David Stern said he would take a back seat. Publisher and majority stockholder would be bustling little Tommy, who climbed the ladder from cub reporter to publisher on the family's Camden Courier and Post, with time out for Army service and a novel (Francis, a 1946 satire about a talking Army mule). The Sterns persuaded a group of New Orleans business and professional leaders to buy a minority stock interest in the Item...
...Male Animal. In Springfield, Mo., Mrs. Pauline Suggs filed suit for divorce because her husband put an ad in the paper describing himself as a "lonely gentleman wishing to meet a nice lady, 35-40 years...