Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for the cleft-palate title) equally expert historical novel by the author of last year's best-selling The Harp and the Blade Hero Ingram Applegarth, an Elizabethan gentleman-adventurer, is 21, short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting...
...casual visitor in the House gallery could have guessed that a critical moment of the 77th Congress was at hand. Speaker Rayburn merely drawled: "The question is on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman from Missouri." There was no debate. As casually as if it were considering a new post office, the House voted 205-128 not to agree with the gentleman...
...GILDED MAN-Carter Dickson-William Morrow ($2). Sir Henry Merri-vale, in sportive mood, solves the stabbing of an English country gentleman who was struck down with his own fruit knife while robbing his own art gallery. An ironclad puzzle, with some hilarious interludes...
Speaking to the press, Prado, a slight, grey-haired, dapper gentleman, called for American solidarity in these times. A former professor of mathematics at the University of San Morcos, founded in 1552, he said in English difficult to understand, "Let us dwell on the days when the men of San Morcos and the men of Harvard can devote themselves in peace and security to study and science...
...gentleman called up the Information office yesterday. "Could you send me a companion for my wife?" he asked. "I am forced to go away on etxended business trips pretty frequently, and she gets so lonely that I thought you might be able to provide someone to wile away the long hours...