Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's regimental dinner paid fitting tribute to a man we midshipmen met at Lido Beach, and a man who holds something more than our respect, Lt. Commander Salmon. He was both an inspirational commanding officer and a gentleman. If your men were your commanding officer, Sir, they would say, as you so often have, "Well done." Smooth sailing, and good luck from the youngest of your past commands...
...Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused the Squire. "Well, I do hope my son-in-law and daughters-in-law will be our sort." murmured Mrs. Belton wistfully. "I suppose I'm a perfectly beastly snob," said her pretty daughter Elsa, "but I can't help...
...great-grandson, George VI, L.G. had fashioned a lot of English history. He had risen from a lower plane than most to do it. He could remember when Britain's aristocracy, calling at Downing Street, would watch to see if he drank his tea as a gentleman should...
...could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts of a young bull ... a master mechanic in the art of seduction...
General Doolittle's role is short to offer more than a glimpse of Spencer Tracy. Lieutenant Lawson is the central figure of the story; as Lawson, Van Johnson proves that in addition to having a deceptively easy manner, this gentleman can really act. Phyllis Thaxter, a relatively new lady of the screen, delivers a genuinely convincing performance in the part of Lawson's young wife. Lawson's tail-gunner, Robert Walker, again portrays Robert Walker and again well...