Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slyly demanded, "withdraw your ambassador and declare war." At 8 p.m., the Haitian government answered "that loathsome beast" by announcing that it had already recalled its ambassador. But Roland was hardly satisfied. The following afternoon he sneeringly challenged the Haitians: "I give you a rendezvous at the border, gentlemen, which I know you will not dare to keep, cowards that...
...Riley brothers of Medford and the Dartmouth first line hold the key to tonight's game. These two gentlemen a center (Bill) and a right winger (Job) have done the majority of Dartmouth scoring this season. The Indian line has accounted for 97 goals and or assists in 11 games...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "the Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine...
...without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand side, you'll note, is farr more worn than the left...
...state that the "logical absurdity" of this entire business would be for us to ban the work of Wagner and Pound and "all the other artists who also rejected free society." Gentlemen, you are talking nonsense. No one cares about Wagner; he has been dead a few years; he has not been invited to symphony Hall; whether or not he was disgusting 100 years ago cannot possible matter to us. His music lives, has a beauty and entity of its own as it comes to us through the medium of contemporary performers...