Word: gentleman
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...elevator operator. He knew that the police would be waiting. His relatives in Miami had called to warn him that detectives had come around asking about his whereabouts, after they got a tip that Milledge's killer was alive and living in New York. "He was a perfect gentleman," recalls Detective George Cadavid, who helped make the arrest, "but that doesn't excuse him from the fact that he killed a policeman." Police took Strachan to the Manhattan jail that is known as the Tombs. The nickname is an understatement. If he survived the jail's daily brawls and stabbings...
...champ is expected to be a role model: a monster at work, a gentleman at play. But Tyson also needed to live out the fight fan's fantasy -- and maybe his own -- that he is the world's roughest, meanest, baddest stud. His worst offense may be in believing that he is what he does...
Because Bush is, in many respects, the perfect gentleman -- a quality for which he has often been teased -- he has been the perfect U.S. President for this phase of East-West relations. He is a good sport, a gracious winner, skillful at assuring Gorbachev that he won't be sorry for what he has done, which is nothing less than presiding over the capitulation of the Soviet Union in the cold...
Eschewing "Harvard's Puritan Heritage," this saucy and heretickal Fellowe Elponseth instead ye visions Doctrine of "Unitarianism." He difparageth further that goode and great Gentleman ye Reverend Doctor Cotton Father...
...remaine, Sir, your most humble and obedient Servants, Some Gentleman of Harvard and Ladies of Radcliffe