Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear up the discordant situation President Hoover summoned his onetime political friend, Senator Borah, who as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has the Treaty nominally in charge. Not since last year when their friendship was ruptured by tariff and farm relief differences had the President consulted the gentleman from Idaho. For 45 minutes Senator Borah, apathetic toward the Treaty's virtues, listened to the President tell of his hopes and fears, walked out to say it was "immaterial" to him when the Treaty was disposed...
Miss Miller said that she had given Pupil Potts "refuge from the police" at her London flat for several days. He told her of obtaining from Cambridge shops $3,000 worth of haberdashery on credit which he pawned "for money to live like a gentleman." When she last saw him, said Madge Miller, "poor Mr. Potts was on his way to make a clean breast of everything at Cambridge," and she understood that he intended to commit suicide...
...remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment he calls the Westshires. Hero is Bourne, a gentleman ranker, who has come through the Somme battles with his two chums, Shem and Martlow, without a scratch. Not regular soldiers, they are veterans now, have the veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable...
Freshmen and other beginners will do well to note the action of those who have ben around here for some time and who can show better than a gentleman's average. It is derisively called "cramming" by some, but to the knowing it is a thorough review of the backgrounding that the course in general has presented and the "nailing down" of the most valuable specific points...
...both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant Fox was wide on the turn, the others, saving ground inside, did not gain. They still had to run the length of the stretch, when a ruddy gentleman sitting in a glass pagoda near the finish line brought his binoculars away from his eyes. With a throaty exclamation, he said, "Fine, I'm glad...