Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
...playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface stints...
Crime? The court had rejected the stiffer formula of "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman" which would have cashiered Colonel Colman. It acquitted him altogether of 23 violations of the Articles of War, involving various charges of illegally transferring soldiers, accepting gifts from favor-seeking civilians, making away with government property...
...gentleman gave his word of honor that there would be no classes Labor Day. Another, that the School would march enmasse to greet a covey of pin-up girls in Boston to spur the war effort...
...Paul Hoffman? Paul Gray Hoffman is a mild-mannered, mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...