Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another gentleman, to whom Eckstein remarked that a man who had committed hara-kiri was, after all, dead, quickly replied: "No, that's where his life begins...
...Gentleman from Indiana
...Gentleman from Indiana. Elmer Holmes Davis, now 53, was born in Aurora, Ind., a tired little town which got along by making boxes and coffins, selling to farmers on Saturday night and keeping one eye cocked for a rise in the Ohio River. His father, the elderly, bearded president of Aurora's First National Bank, was known as the richest man in town...
That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
...Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...