Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist. He had persuaded Ludovic Halevy, boulevardier & librettist, to bring him there. The Prince stared at the bosom and hips...
Almost equally secretive was Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, when cornered by ship-news reporters on the Berengaria. With hands clasped behind his back, Mr. Gilbert rose slightly on the balls of his feet and observed: "You must realize, gentlemen, that this is a good time for me to be silent...
...typical U. S. tycoon. (See INTERNATIONAL.) Interviewed, he admitted only that during the holidays he had kept up his golf.? To questions about "The Program of Realization" he curtly and characteristically replied, without attempting humor or evasion, "Rien, maintenant, messieurs!" (Nothing to say, at present, gentlemen...
Back to the Digest!* where men are gentlemen and news is news-and not pseudowise-cracks and ribald insinuendos. Exit subscriber...
Then, as the Nineteenth Century drew to its close, was the golden time of the Waldorf-Astoria. Prancing, sleek horses drew gleaming broughams and victorias to the doors, porters ushered bejewelled ladies and distinguished gentlemen into the labyrinthine lobby. Hansom cabs picked up titled fares at the portals...