The New Yorker, November 6, 1926 P. 25 PROFILE of Anita Loos, authoress, who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
By E. E. Paramore The New Yorker, November 6, 1926 P. 25 PROFILE of Anita Loos, authoress, who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
A relentless hype man, he passed out portraits of himself wearing a top hat and opera glasses in a balloon basket — "the balloonist as aerial flaneur," Holmes writes, "gentleman of the upper air, a voyageur extraordinaire".
Murray's hand-books, often written by gentleman amateurs, feature obscure antiquarian anecdotes and apposite classical quotations -- in untranslated Greek or Latin.
I was annoyed, because when I wrote Time Gentlemen Please with Al Murray I had the same idea – those clip show episodes are so annoying – and I thought that would be awesome, but Community have beaten us to that.
On August 28, Washington, atop Iron Hill, and Howe, on Gray's Hill, observed each other as they took stock of the enemy's position; one of the Hessian generals wrote, "These gentlemen observed us with their glasses as carefully as we observed them.
Many books of documentary value were later written by English gentlemen on their grand tour of the Continent.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke.
Oscar Wilde once wrote, "A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally".
Harrison wrote: "A gentleman also of late hath taken great pains to search out the secret practices of this ungracious rabble.
