Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is his picture of a Boston gentleman, really rich, who has made an art of Thrift (in this case Thrift is really a euphemism for the tightest sort of penny-pinching). He has invented a device, whereby his pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
...which appears Katharine Cornell. Madeleine Smith was real, and the playwrights have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with...
...Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," indeed the "Foremost of the Pear Orchard," disembarked from an ocean steamship in Seattle last week. He was a small, girlish-looking Chinese gentleman. In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry. Twenty Chinamen accompanied "The Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," certain of them bearing strangely shaped cases containing musical instruments...
...Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner of his end. Footsteps, chess, English voices, higher mathematics, and the Church are used to create suspense, successfully keep your interest, and Basil Rathbone, as Vance, is pleasantly similar to William...
Christopher Morley, whimsical gentleman of letters, last week filed a petition for a receivership for the Hoboken Theatrical Co. which has presented sundry old melodramas and musical diversions in musty old theatres in Hoboken, N. J., 15 minutes by tube or ferry from Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 3, 1928, March 25, Oct. 7). The reasons adduced by Mr. Morley in his petition, more notable for turns of phrases than fiscal persuasiveness, were: 1) peculation and mismanagement on the part of former associates and employes; 2) superfluous production costs; 3) summer decline in business; 4) the stockmarket disturbance. Mr. Morley declared that...