Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...space to writing up the rise in the wrestling game of this most worthy young man with whom I am proud to be acquainted. I am only one of a great many who would consider him to be one of the cleanest-cut athletes and also most affable gentlemen who ever entered the sporting world in any of its branches. "Doc" HEWETT...
Last week the Committee reached Schedule 7?the agricultural section?of the Tariff Act of 1922. Into the Committee room in the House Office Building strode, not the farmers themselves, but their hired lobbyists, suave, well-garbed, soft-spoken gentlemen, prosperous on their fees. They came to make the farmers' argument. Here and there a "dirt farmer" (as he always carefully introduced himself) would get in by mistake, but by and large the touch and feel of the soil was noticeably lacking from the agricultural witnesses who journeyed from New York and Chicago offices, from chambers of commerce, from large...
Their invitations were accepted by 75 young ladies, among whom were a large number of next year's debutantes, and by twice that number of gentlemen, who were with few exceptions Freshmen. To accommodate such a throng five adjoining suits were thrown open to one another and decked with furniture suited to the occasion, in place of the more ordinary pieces, temporarily abandoned. In each room sat the mother of one of the five, behind her a white-covered, sandwich-laden table. The floor of one room was bared, while a phonograph tempted the gay company to dance...
...call it the Second Dawes Committee, gentlemen, that will ensure the continuity of your files, and of the entire bibliography of the subject...
...Throughout the evening the other colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times, and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford, had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...