Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, the view that it is impossible to be a complete gentleman with a deficit. In the once well-stocked cellar, impossible to be an educated one with the fear of affectation constantly driving culture to cover is sufficiently widespread to deserve comment. Though total abstinence from cultivation in accent and alcohol would detract from the epicureah values of complete living, to consider the first as the inevitable result of education and the second as the necessary complement of a gentleman's domestic arrangements requires the undue stretching of a doubtful point. The true education is free from affectation...
Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, aggregate circulation over 7.000,000): $21,534.265 as against...
...Islands have discovered a man and a woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year's supplies. They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture. First he visited...
...midst of our discussion there came the encouraging news that Harvard, through the gift of Edward S. Harkness, will definitely give this plan a trial. And then we have recently learned that through the generosity of this same gentleman, Yale also intends to follow suit. Believing that the action of two such universities brought this plan, beyond any question not only into the realms of practicability, but also would set on foot a movement that would spread throughout this nation, we felt, unwisely, that we might lay down the pen and await certain developments...
Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...