Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?...
...equivalent of Harvard "H" men), who come up to Cambridge for a month or two each year for this purpose. It is true that they offer their time free so that they are technically of amateur standing, but I have been told by several people that they are chiefly gentlemen of leisure who can easily afford to devote their time to university athletics without receiving any remuneration...
...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...
Said the prisoner, turning to the Jury: "Gentlemen: My mother was suffering torture. The doctors agreed she could not recover. I felt that, though I broke the law, I did right. I'm willing to pay any penalty you think just. My action would not have been necessary if the state would pass a law enabling doctors to end the suffering of incurables...
...autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not." Blessing or dupe, Miss Keller, now 49. describes these commentators and other ladies and gentlemen in her haphazard notes of the past quarter-century...