Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always something of a snob. As Prime Minister, he was constantly darting off to London for receptions and ceremonies, test matches at the fashionable Marylebone Cricket Club, and the Commonwealth Conference ("I make a few statesmanlike remarks. The eminent gentlemen of the civil service, who have already written the ultimate communiqué, say, 'Yes, that was a good point...
Pretty Sight. Her chosen time span begins in 1890. In Britain, gentlemen still peered out of their club windows at passing carriages and told each other "what a pretty thing it was to see a lovely woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled...
...railroads really want more passengers [Dec. 24], let them first replace their grumpy, gravel-voiced conductors with genial gentlemen and P.A. systems. Second, let them stop charging $5 for meals that the airlines give you without charge...
...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. The "concern" is that of the tough, grasping Lockwoods of eastern Pennsylvania, who want to turn themselves into gentlemen but don't want to give up the morals of the coal patch. The period detail is meticulous, but the book as a whole, like most of the author's long novels, will be useful principally to the reader who wants to commit O'Hara-kiri...
...President Eliot of Harvard notified Henry Adams that he would be the recipient of an honorary degree in recognition of his History of the United States. Adams declined, and urged that the honor be conferred on Nicolay and Hay for their Abraham Lincoln, A History. Eliot replied: "Those gentlemen did not write history, but the historical biography of a man just dead. They were actors in many of the scenes they described, and, therefore, could not be historians. They have prepared invaluable materials for the subsequent historian, and done an admirable piece of literary work; but I submit that they...