Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delivering mail, sweeping the halls, and collecting both garbage and rents. She is the voice of conscience and the threat of retribution. She sees everything and understands much. Monsieur, she notices, is taking on weight. La Pipelette has a brother-in-law who is concierge at an establishment where gentlemen's waistlines are held in check by fencing or judo. For a consideration, Madame could make arrangements...
...prize winners by a traditional gentlemen's agreement pay the travelling expenses for the triangular debate...
...party in power, the Liberals had been able to fix the election date to suit themselves. Early last week, back from a 6,000-mile political swing through Western Canada, Louis St. Laurent had called his cabinet into session. "Well, gentlemen," he said, "I think we should have an early election. Does everyone agree?" Everyone did. The cabinet settled on the earliest possible date: June 27. In the House of Commons that night, Louis St. Laurent made his early election call, announced the dissolution of Parliament for week...
...fraction that had missed the point can be called the Anti-Social Relations Set. This group has adopted the C-plus saga as a proof that all Social Relations courses are ludicrously obvious in their content and ridiculously easy to pass. To this group one need only say, flatly, "Gentlemen, you are wrong;" to argue the value of courses in fields such as sociology and psychology would be more to patronize the Social Relations Department than to defend...
Sample. At Fort Knox, Ky., officials received a letter from a Floral Park (N.Y.) writer: "Gentlemen: Please send me a gold brick and some material on Ft. Knox...