Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserved to lose by so great a majority, I do not know. The editor of the Herald states that the majority was probably ten or fifteen to one. More likely it was more than twenty to one. Two years ago when we debated Boston College, the gentleman who had charge of the counting of the ballots said that the audience vote was something over three thousand for Boston College, as against eighty-eight for Harvard...
Nothing I have written here should be construed as a reflection upon any of the Boston College debaters, nor upon the gentleman who directs their activities. We have been used very decently by everyone connected with Boston College. Mr. Kenneally deserves the warmest praise for his success in getting the debate before the public. His debaters delivered their speeches very well. They succeeding in evading a discussion of what we think were very pertinent questions. We believe those questions are ananswerable. We failed to make the audience and the judges see that. So far as we failed in that...
...witness, introduced to the committee as "a gentleman and a scholar" by Illinois Wet Representative Sabath who had never seen him before, was Walter W. Liggett, onetime Minnesota newsgatherer. Lately Mr. Liggett has been investigating Prohibition conditions in several states and writing for Plain Talk such articles as "Holy Hypocritical Kansas," "Michigan, Soused and Serene,"Bawdy Boston," "How wet is Washington?" His testimony was largely a rehash of his writings. Excerpts...
...Cleveland, with its 40% foreign-born and 65% foreign-blooded, a smartly attired gentleman named Chairman Louis Petrash was presiding over a meeting of the Welfare Committee of the City Council. Before the committee was a letter from the Communist Council of the Unemployed, which demanded immediate relief in money and work for 75,000 jobless Clevelanders...
Towering six feet two above the gild French furniture in one of the ornate dressing rooms of the Keith Albee Theatre, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in a voice that appeared to come from the depths of his anatomy, answered questions about boxing asked of him by his CRIMSON interviewer and at the same time added his personal views about the game that has made him famous...