Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warning. General Fuller is a military expert; his political remarks should be taken either with a grain of salt or several highballs. The general has been called an admirer of Fascism, was even photographed in the days before the war with the gentleman who has since become Lord Haw-Haw. He drops queer passing remarks, which smack of racism, anti-plutocratism, and other Nazi cliches. Example (explaining the Mexican War): "Since the days of Cortés and his followers the country had been largely bastardized, and the half-caste race resulting had not yet had time to form those...
...Lieut. Doolittle, waving his shavetails, bawled out an old sergeant. The sergeant saluted, said: "Sir, if I may say so, I served with your father, and what a gentleman he was!" Lieut. Jimmy later reported this incident to his father and asked: "Damn it, Pappy, what could...
...streets and in company a gentleman should be "Grave, Settled and attentive," should refrain from swatting "Fleas, lice, ticks &c in the Sight of Others." A gentleman should not run, dawdle, or walk with his mouth open, shaking his arms and kicking his feet "in a Dancing fashion." Clothes should not be "foul, unript [torn] or Dusty," hands should not be put "to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered...
Clayton Douglass Buck, 52, Delaware, a shy, reserved engineer, banker and gentleman farmer who has been called Delaware's "least-known prominent citizen." A descendant of one of the State's oldest families, a relative of the Du Ponts by marriage, he has made a career of public service: in the State Highway Department for nine years, as Governor for eight...
Headquarters Bloke. For 26 of his 52 years shrewd Sir Arthur Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...