Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
Pious Branch Rickey on a couple of hired hands, past & present: "Burt Shotton is a good manager and gentleman . . . Leo Durocher is a good manager...
...clanged down the corrugated iron shutters, which did not come up again for two days. In the Excelsior bar an American matron twittered: "Oh, I saw it all-rocks flying and sticks coming down on heads, bang-bang-bang. It was so exciting!" A spade-bearded Italian gentleman, ordering another vermouth and ice, said: "This would never have happened in the old days...
...desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead, but Basso knew where his course...
Today the evolution of Waugh the conservative English gentleman is almost complete. His attachments to the old families and the peerage are close. With them and with Catholic intellectuals, rather than among his literary contemporaries, he finds his friends...