Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...
Hugo's cousin, Devereux Bolinvar. last of the sporting, aristocratic New Jersey Bolinvars, is the book's second hero. "Dev" (6 ft. tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
...week the magazine Country Book reported that kudzu may revolutionize southern farming. Already the kudzu cult has a radio program (on Atlanta's WAGA) and an organization of more than 1,000 ardent growers, the Kudzu Club of America, Inc. Chief kudzu-cultists are two well-known Georgia gentleman farmers, Channing Cope, a onetime utility man, and Cason Callaway, retired textile manufacturer...
...Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...