Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years' time you'll be an old gentleman too, and if your belly keeps pace with your swollen head you'll have a bigger one than...
...more valid warning than Anderson's might point out that the plans propose nothing more than a gentleman's club. Fair though they are, they expect gentlemanly behavior which, under internal political pressure, governments might not be able to live up to. An answer to this might be that the time has come when gentlemanly behavior is a political necessity...
Willkie might have called his work "The Education of Wendell Willkie," for it marks the second phase of the rise to fame of the gentleman from Indiana. The first stage of his development came after Philadelphia, when the erstwhile corporation lawyer was introduced to the problems of public concern via a hard fought political campaign; it is significant to note that, as the time of his political education progressed, his political and economic liberalism ever increased. The 31,000 mile trip around the world via the Liberator bomber, "Gulliver," has begun a further stage of Mr. Willkie's growth...
...Presidential radio debut had been a flop. But four days later Woodrow Wilson used the contraption to talk to his Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Washington - a gentleman who was to become the most celebrated radio figure in history...
...days when most Harvard men were graduated into Wall Street or Dad's office, the College's function was that of training Cardinal Newman's "gentleman"--he who "carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast." But since that day, our nation has come to know many things--the glitter and disillusionment of World War I, the shoddy decade of demoralization that followed demobilization, the years of leanness and social waste, the present conflict. As we have learned the lesson, so has Harvard realized that its most important duties...