Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first all-Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...
Adoption Announced, By Mrs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller, oilman, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick, farm machinery manufacturer, widow of the late Major Elisha D. Hubbard, gentleman farmer; of a girl, 4, who will presumably one day share the double-barreled fortune of her foster forebears...
When Illinois' Church started to enlarge on his eagerness to enact tax legislation which had not yet been drafted. Leader Rayburn, fearful of what was coming, appealed to Speaker Bankhead: "I did not yield to the gentleman to make a speech...
Leader Rayburn: "The gentleman may object if he wishes...
...Bohemian garret-&-starvation conception of a great artist does not apply to Sibelius. Since 1897 he has enjoyed a modest pension from the Finnish state, which has provided him with leisure to compose. At his house at Jarvenpaa he lives the secluded life of a highly respectable country gentleman. His five daughters have long since gone forth to marry and raise families of their own. He and his wife live alone, looked after by two maids. He relishes good food and drink, smokes continually the best and largest Havana cigars, is partial between meals to well-aged whiskey served...