Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quietly and frugally near Brussels live a distinguished Van-Dyke-bearded gentleman, his singularly lovely wife, and a son in the best French tradition of sleek, slightly pale, aristocratic youth. Thousands of Frenchmen call them La Famille Royale and honor as Le Roi de France the gentleman whom the world calls only the Due de Guise. The son, Prince Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe, is hailed as Le Dauphin de France, or Crown Prince. One day last week as the North Star express from Brussels thundered into Paris, there occurred such a demonstration that pop-eyed strangers might have...
...Clarence Sharp he thus addressed proved to be not only a white man but a man even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...
...Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...
While classical studies will probably never again occupy the dominant position in education which they did until a half-century ago, they remain as the basis of our literature and art, and should continue to be held one of the elements in the training of the gentleman and the scholar...