Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys on the battlefront don't keep union hours, nor do they get extra pay for overtime. ... I might remind Mr. Smathers that servicemen also pay taxes-out of the salaries the gentleman insists come from taxes paid by him and the rest of the oppressed. His tone implies that the services are akin to charitable organizations, which he as a taxpayer is forced to support. Shall we forgo our salaries so that he does not have to pay the taxes from which such salaries are derived...
Notable bit: white-tied Alan Mowbray, quite sufficiently listed as an "English Gentleman," dislocating the rest of the film by his monumental, effortless detachment towards Robert Young, his own surroundings, and the comedy in general...
...Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...
Undergraduates and University Hall alike, then, can no longer regard disciplinary probation as the badge of a collegiate gentleman or a red flag to be liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans...
This is the nature of a command performance. We wept salty tears in the last issue--any further demonstration of sentiment would be womanish and unsuitable in an officer and a gentleman (over though only by act of Congress!!) Shortly after this goes to press, all sixty-four of us will be on route to our duty stations and looking ahead, rather than backward. Our fellow-graduates across the river will be in similar situations. But the Supply Corps continues, and the Communication School plug on, and the QMC works modestly in mufti, so we'll write a post-valedictory...