Word: chesterfield
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...from the gilded cabinet that France's Louis XIV announced his engagement to Mme. de Maintenon. (Even Lyndon Johnson was not above conducting affairs of state while moving his bowels.) Indeed, there are few places so conducive to intellectual exercise as a well-appointed bathroom. Lord Chesterfield advised his son that he "knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the call of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments...
...lawyers have rarely managed big, complex organizations, but they have analytical minds and wide experience, and many have done shuttle service in Washington and state capitals. Florida's Chesterfield Smith, 58, a past president of the American Bar Association, is particularly active in state affairs; he was chairman of the commission that revised the Florida constitution. Cyrus Vance, 58, has distinguished himself in Government as Secretary of the Army and the Johnson Administration's chief negotiator at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris. He is greatly respected by his peers, who have elected him president...
...absent, not to mention his celebrated crushes on Victorian nymphets. And the book shows a predilection for minor clerics and third-rate poetasters that is a bit too donnish for 1975. Yet in the end, the musty, bibliomaniacal quality only adds to the volume's charm. Lord Chesterfield once told his son that "there are very many [books], and even very useful ones, which may be read with ad vantage by snatches and unconnectedly." This is one of them...
During the recesses, members of the Edelin Defense Fund stood in the hallway congratulating each other on the convincing testimony, but Thomas M. Connelly, who is active in the right-to-life movement, flitted about anxiously, drawing deeply on a habitual Chesterfield or guessing shrewdly at possible contradictions in the defendant's testimony...
Where were the lawyers? In the surf, on Waikiki beaches or strolling along Kalakaua Avenue with their families, decked out in colorful sports shirts for the men and matching muumuus for their wives. Outgoing A.B.A. President Chesterfield Smith of Lakeland, Fla., called the no-show performance "deplorable, disgraceful and regrettable." All this past year Smith had been doing his feisty best to stir colleagues into facing up to the public suspicion and derision heaped on lawyers since Watergate. The beach bliss-out was a response the profession can ill afford...