Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out once again. Sturdy CRIMSON batsmen, their muscles rippling a promise of quiet power, took their turns at the plate yesterday afternoon and easily lifted over 30 hits to the outfield, scoring, as Dame Fortune would have it, 23 runs to vanquish the hapless gentlemen of the Lampoon,--the 45th straight CRIMSON triumph in as many starts...
...this all that his predecessors might have envied George VI. They loved pomp and he has lords in waiting, grooms in waiting, gentlemen ushers, pages of honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased the number of the King's retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu...
There is, in fact, but a single way in which such measures can be avoided; and that is for the House Masters to fulfill the trust which they have abused. The first selection of the Freshman class this week has made it patent that these gentlemen do not feel obliged to follow any precepts in the admissions system except their own opinions and prejudices. If their attitude does not change before the second draft is made this year, it will be necessary to curtail their authority with a system of set criteria...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...