Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
London's publicans were setting up their nightly cry of "Time, gentlemen" and were just closing when the long vigil at the palace gates was at last rewarded. At 10:10 p.m., from out of the palace bustled a young, blue-clad page. He whispered a word to the bobby at the gate. The bobby nodded. "It's a boy," he announced solemnly, then, throwing his chest out and his head full back, he shouted for all to hear; "A Prince has been born...
Outside, like a stiffly starched nurse in a hospital corridor, a police car drove up to the cheering crowds. "Ladies and gentlemen," admonished a loudspeaker, "it is requested from the palace that we have a little quietness, if you please. The Princess is trying to sleep...
...Harvard Club of Boston has announced elaborate plans for the afternoon. Following the traditional buffet luncheon, member and their gentlemen guests will follow the play-by-play over television in "Harvard Hall," the main dining room, with possible celebrations afterwards...
...even if the Harvard Club officers choose to forget the students, they must not ignore the thousands of University alumni they represent, the thousands whose memorial this will be. There is a just and democratic way open to the gentlemen who meet this afternoon. This way is to set the Saltonstall Committee plan to one side and give University alumni the ballot they desire...