Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nash might be revolving in his grave. Old Ed Kelly might be fidgeting with alarm. But Illinois' potent Democratic machine, which has customarily counted on tried & tested party professionals to do its toughest campaigning chores, announced last week that its 1948 ticket would be headed by 1) a gentleman and 2) a scholar...
...Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
Whitehead once defined the ideal university professor as "an ignorant man thinking." He possessed the great teacher's greatest gift: nobody ever asked him a foolish question. His philosophy students at Harvard gladly took the calculated risk that Professor Whitehead had demanded-honors or a flunk; no "gentleman...
Musorgsky learned early to drink like a gentleman; later he just drank. At 13, already a talented pianist, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, where according to one account, "all free time after drilling was dedicated by the cadets to dancing, amours, and drink. General Sutgof was . . . proud when a cadet came back from leave drunk with champagne, sprawled in an open carriage drawn by his own trotters...
...Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck in a polemic against anti-Semitism (TIME...