Word: gents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miner sang: "How much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent-if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
...much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent?if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
Professor Rock says in his letter that at the time of writing his baggage and property of the Arnold Arboretum were in the hands of an gent of the Standard Oil Company, and that as soon as the road was open he would be able to ship the latter to Yunnanfu and from there forward it to Boston...
...Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have a manner. He has He has lots...
Chapman's early translation of Homer is entitled "The Crowne of all Homeres Worckes, Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mice". This is also a presentation copy inscribed to "ye Righte Virtuouse and worthie Gent: Mr. Henry Reynolds...