Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...
George William Rendel, slight, shy, former British Minister to Bulgaria, is a long-suffering gentleman. When Minister Rendel left Bulgaria last year after the Nazis' arrival, someone planted a bomb in his luggage. No sooner had Minister Rendel and his diplomatic party arrived in the ornate lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel than the bomb went off, killing one of the Minister's girl secretaries and four Turks, turning the lobby into a geyser of shattered trunks, curios and potted palms (TIME, March 24, 1941). Oddly enough, the Pera Palace sued Minister Rendel and party...
...Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn't even giggle...
...judge in San Francisco signed a $3,022 judgment for failing to pay income tax (1929) against 61-year-old Author Peter B. Kyne, creator of "Cappy Ricks," the old gentleman who always fixed everything...
...whispering to him that the proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted...