Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the winter of 1922, that gentleman (whose weather reports, given in a mixture of bad English and rapid French, had to be heard to be believed; he had already sprung some astonishing surprises on us in the way of forecasts, one of the best of which was an announcement that we might expect the weather to be "squoggy"), was asked by a worried pilot, en route to England, for the weather conditions in the English Channel. He announced solemnly "Gremlins sur la Manche," and left it at that. Further efforts by the pilot to get an explanation were...
...Feel like a gentleman of leisure. Would like a tall, sleek, beautiful brunette to bring me my coffee. . . . Scouted clearing and ran set of levels for a proposed take-off strip...
...high positions. His Cabinet looked weak even in peacetime. Now, least of all, do most Americans want their war policies to be shaped by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the lady in the funny hat; or by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., who got his job via gentleman farming and publication of the American Agriculturist; or by Postmaster General Frank Walker...
...Gentleman in Arkansas. James William Fulbright is young (37), handsome, wealthy and a Rhodes scholar (1925). He talked and whittled his way into the hearts of farmers and storekeepers in Arkansas' mountainous Third District and won the Democratic Congressional nomination against Supreme Court Justice Karl Greenhaw, a protege of Governor Homer Adkins. Going to the crossroads and hill farms, Gentleman Fulbright convinced the people that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials...
Thirty years ago the phrase "Gentleman Jim has won again" meant a pugilist named Corbett. Today it refers to a cagey politician whose last name is Farley. For, in the New York Democratic Convention yesterday, Jim's man won the nomination for Governor hands down. The victory of Attorney General John J. Bennett over Senator James A. Mead sets off a chain of consequences that may tie the political structure of the country into its worst tangle in several decades. Most important of all, it forces a wartime President into the dangerous game of playing politics within his own party...