Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words, Words, Words. Michigan's burly Hook flushed, seemed to be trying to keep hold of himself. Said he: "And we hope to hold them down. And if the gentleman from Mississippi will quit his raving and ranting and get down and at least assist the good citizens of the C.I.O., he would probably be doing a service to this country...
John Rankin's hair was flying as he shouted back: "Whenever I get down to the gentleman's level as it is reflected down here by this FEPC [Fair Employment Practice Committee] and Communists that he has been mixed up with...
John Elliott Rankin, Mississippi's demagogic champion of white supremacy, asked Congress to change its custom of calling the nine women members of the House "gentlewomen," instead proposed that they be called "ladies." Quoting dictionary definitions, Gentleman Rankin said: "The term 'gentlewoman' puts the ladies one social step below the 'gentleman' of the House . . . I for one recognize no social distinction...
...Gentleman Joe Neal admits that he has recently been converted to the Frank Sinatra fan club. Did his new "study buddy" Cecil Rhodes have anything to do with this conversion? We are conducting a survey of the sale of tobacco at ships service since the last Sources case. Word has reached us that the members of Companies 1 and 2 are immediately sickened at the mention of that word...
...Emmanuel (Two Cities-United Artists) tells the story of a sort of Jewish Mr. Chips, so creakily gallant and suicidally innocent an old gentleman that he goes from England to Germany in 1938 to look for the mother of a distraught Jewish refugee boy. He finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When...