Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GENTLEMAN OF PLYMOUTH, conscientiously believing that the present Parliamentary representative from the Sutton Division should be opposed at the next election, would like to communicate with a gentleman who would be willing to oppose the present member as an independent Conservative candidate...
...Times kept locked in its professional bosom the secret of the Plymouth Gentleman's identity, nor would it hint whether his conscience was bothered by Lady Astor's visit to the Soviets, her U.S. origin, her advocacy of Prohibition or her own inimitable personality. The Conservative Executive Committee of the Sutton Division took the advertisement seriously enough to hold an emergency meeting, and pass a resolution of "unabated confidence" in their Lady of Plymouth and Virginia...
...State House of Representatives and, with the aid of Governor Bilbo during a previous term, elevated to the Speakership where he served eight years. Later he and Governor Bilbo quarreled politically, which accounts for the skeleton. Off the stump Mr. Conner is a good-natured, well-to-do, cultured gentleman, a member of the Methodist Church, owner of the finest private law library in the State...
...woman's story came out. A handsome gentleman in a fine automobile had picked her up at 110th Street the day before, wined her, dined her, told her that he was City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune. He had made an appointment with her for the following day, promised to show her the Herald Tribune's plant, go to dinner, the theatre, a night club. He had failed to appear...
...benevolent old gentleman in a long white false beard, sat one night last week in a small, cramped heaven above the stage in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. Surrounded by cloudlike forms, he occupied a throne in front of a large yellow sunflower, gazed majestically down at Job and his family & friends and Satan. He gazed also at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and a small audience of dance lovers. It was the first of the Stadium's three nights with the Denishawn Dancers, and the first U. S. performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing, with music...