Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owen Johnson has been married five times, has written three classics (The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become...
...roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers they had fought...
...just an 'American.' and, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners'; they are 'Canadians.' " But President Roosevelt had not yet done his best. He referred to the late George V as "a great King and a great gentleman." He added: "It has also been my privilege to know His Majesty King Edward." And then as the supreme evidence of his ability as a statesman, President Roosevelt turned without warning to Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur...
Last week Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. totted up circulation and revenue for the first six months of 1936. When the audit was completed, President Walter Dean Fuller announced that, between them, The Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman and Ladies' Home Journal had gained some 418,000 readers over the first half of last year. Circulation: Sateve-post: 2,972,026; Country Gentleman: 1,534,812; Ladies' Home Journal: 2,786,219. Net profits of the three magazines for the same period were up from $3,773,297 to $4,107,871. Curtis no-par common stock...
...order from King Edward then halted the curtsying, caused numerous young women who had not yet curtsied to burst into tears. An elderly lady, leading the rush to cover from the rain, tripped outside Buckingham Palace, sprawled flat, soiled her white gown. A gentleman arriving late stepped out of his limousine at the precise moment when a Buckingham Palace gardener turned on a hose which happened to be pointed at the gentleman, soused...