Word: gentlemanly
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...sportsman and the man who wants people to think he's a sportsman, these suspenders are just the thing. Here we have depicted hounds and hunters in smart color leaping over fences, and no matter where the gentleman who wears them may be, he will be surrounded with an air of the landed aristocracy. Men of distinction can buy these fine suspenders for only $5.00 at J. AUGUST, in the Square only...
Prime Minister Sidney Holland, searching his vocabulary for a succinct description of an opposing Labor Party argument, last week thought he had exactly the right word. He blurted it out: "Piffle." He was promptly interrupted by Speaker Matthew Oram, who said sternly: "The Right Honorable gentleman must withdraw...
...novice usherette from Radcliffe was on duty taking tickets for the H.D.C. at Sanders Theatre last night. A gentleman and his wife appeared and the girl duly tore his tickets in two. As she looked at his stubs to tell him where to go she tensed, and called the House Manager. Investigation revealed that the gentleman had made an error in dates. His season's tickets to the Boston Symphony had been torn to bits...
...Gentleman Amateur. Taft supporters were exultant at Krock's hint that Ike might back their man, declared that Taft and Eisenhower were actually close on foreign policy and Ike would wind up "in Taft's corner." On the Democratic side, word got around Washington that Harry Truman was saying privately that Ike was a real gentleman and a great man-but the President hoped Ike wouldn't run because he is an amateur politician and look what happened to Amateurs Herbert Hoover and Henry Wallace...
This august body sits in solemn session once a week to try student infractions of the rules. Cases are referred to the court by the dean of the college, and all sentences may be appealed to the dean. Such charges as "conduct unbefitting a Brown gentleman" come under the court's jurisdiction...