When that venerable gentleman, who left Boston for the great Southwest in 1942, glowered and turned away, I began to get the point.
He duly appeared before three or four venerable gentlemen who lectured him on how to behave in the Far East.
His next opponent was a venerable gentleman bearing the emblem of Nove-Congo.
It was presumed that the matter had been "left in abeyance pending the ultimate destiny of the venerable gentlemen concerned".
"Bwana Sinclair," announced this venerable gentleman, holding up a clenched fist for silence.
The letter had been delivered into the hands of a venerable Hebrew gentleman.
These venerable gentlemen, who I presume were the priests, kept up an uninterrupted monotonous chant, which was nearly drowned in the roar of drums.
Looking back, my memory is of being surrounded by venerable gentlemen.
Next morning, or perhaps the one following that, Hasan mounted the elephant behind the venerable gentleman and waved good-bye to his sisters once again.
The film, after credits, begins with the 1905 Curtiss biplane, owned and flown by a venerable gentleman who had been a boy when the aircraft was new.