Word: gentlemanly
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...dispensing various favors in return for an occasional home-freeze unit, Major General Harry Hawkins Vaughan, court jester and military aide to the President, has led a relatively quiet life. He has also curbed his old habit of making such public observations as "Winston Churchill is a garrulous old gentleman." Last week, just as people were beginning to ask "Whatever became of Harry Vaughan?", he reappeared briefly upon the scene...
...served as a private in the Spanish-American War after he left Yale in '98, then became a gentleman farmer and got into Republican politics. He was a tall, polite, conservative man who was equally suspicious of reformers, liberals and loud neckties. He maintained a fanatical interest in the art of playing first base, and-through decades of complacency and isolationism-he dedicated himself to the proposition that the U.S. could not survive unless its civilians were trained to spring to arms...
Endlessly she nags her son, a dreamer trapped in a shipping clerk's job, to bring "a gentleman caller" to the house. At length he brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
...play ends with the girl and her mother crushed and hopeless, the son ready to follow his dreams into the merchant marine. In the movie, the visitor's line of guff, heavily larded with Dale Carnegie psychology, brings the girl out of her cocoon, eager to greet another gentleman caller who comes up the stairs at the upbeat fadeout...
...Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...