Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placid Queen Anne got tired of bouncing in a carriage over Britain's heaths watching the gentlemen of her court chase deer. She established the Ascot racecourse so that she could sit in one place and watch the gentlemen race their horses around. In the 238 years since then (right up into last week), interesting occurrences have taken place at Ascot...
...Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting the government's overthrow and wanted his advice. "This is one meeting, gentlemen," he told them, "which I cannot attend...
...seems that the Navy with its great traditions has no better luck in producing officers and gentlemen than the Army. Maybe the Air Force with its more democratic spirit can do better...
With M.N.R. once more on the march, Hertzog's ministers pleaded with him to stay. Hertzog's unhappy answer: "Gentlemen, I appeal to your human feelings to let me go." During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...
...particular Harvard men," was one of four models invited to a junior prom at the New Jersey institution by earnest undergraduate literati, and co-incidentally written up in the current Look. Safely back in New York, Miss Colligan gasped that "men from Harvard are distinguished and very fine gentlemen...