Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GENTLEMAN WITH A LIVELY IMAGINATION.FROM saying that Thomas in lies has no match...
Some one has aptly said that "the genuine gentleman must possess a good degree of moral freedom; but the gentleman robes manliness in courtesy...
...School of Mines Department" of the Columbia Spectator, we read of a gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...
...matter for regret that a gentleman could not have been chosen captain of the Freshman foot-ball team without having a man, antagonistic to him and imbittered by defeat, make a charge against some of his fellow-classmates of "stuffing the ballot-box." We presume, however, that the gentleman, when he made such an ungentlemanly statement, based on no proof whatsoever, and in a manner so much to be condemned, was disappointed and excited at the defeat of his candidate, and did not realize the bad taste, to say the least, of his action. It was an accusation insulting...
...trenching on the prerogatives of the President, offer a toast myself, and ask a gentleman, one of the professors of this University, a fair illustration of the word that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor...