Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentleman...
...other day in Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico...
...author of a rather smug poem called My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. No one guessed his secret, but for years, says Author Brooks, Dyer had been getting Shakespeare to buy bad plays for him and had rewritten them into the classics we read today. As a gentleman, Dyer had naturally not wanted his name connected with the disreputable world of the theater, so he had Agent Shakespeare's name tacked to the plays. To get a bit of his own back, he satirized obese Will Shakespeare in certain plays, making him Bottom, Falstaff, William the Clown...
...Saludos Amigos" will have a pleasant effect upon its South American audiences since there is nothing serious or heady about it. Disney, in his light-hearted manner, has achieved success where other promoters of Inter-American relations have failed. Clearly, the gentleman is a diplomat...
...Gentleman Director. A rare bird in Hollywood is tall (6 ft. 3), white-haired,-stoop-shouldered Howard Hawks. A quiet, cultured citizen, he was educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...