Word: gentlemanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...woman's magazine. Born in the '90s, it was at first a thin, snobbish weekly beamed at socialites and full of socialite-weight stuff. One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?" For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed...
...Fred (Let-The-Chips Fall-Where-They-May) Knox is capable of becoming embarrassed, he must have become just that the other day in Harvard Union when he waxed impatient at the holdup in the chow line. "Hey, Mack," growled the agitated Frederick, prodding the back of a shortish gentleman in front of him, "what's the delay...
Frenzied Finance. When Gregor Ziemer's book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler...
...when he was only 31, Georges Seurat died of septic quinsy. It was only then that his closest friends in the Paris studios learned that this orderly gentleman, who had dined every day with his mother, had taken one of his models as a mistress and by her had a son (who died soon after his father, stricken by the same disease). One of Seurat's finest paintings, Jeune femme se poudrant, is of this woman, Madeleine Knobloch...
Greatly aided by the number of U.S. businessmen who wanted to be told how to run their own businesses, Expert May soon expanded his company throughout the U.S. and Canada. He developed cures for almost every business ailment. Said he: "One day (in 1931) an elderly gentleman came in and wanted to see me about 'Market Analysis.' I didn't know what Market Analysis was, but I hired him. In 1931, of the total business of $644,000 done, Market Analysis alone...