Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentleman: "We must be careful not to step on that elaborate train...
...Gentleman: "Oh, I admire them, of course. Only I have such a dread of stepping on them and bringing down the wrath of the fair wearer on my devoted head...
...Cronin, who watched the Harvards play the Yales behind the bar of his Dunster Street tavern, reported after three nights of business "bigger than V-J Day" over the weekend that "everybody was a gentleman here, even the boys from Boston College...
...company will need every esthetic and material resource at hand to last through the fight to the finish now being waged. When the Ballet Theatre finally broke from impresario Sol Hurok last spring, it found itself for the first time happily without that gentleman's strong hand at its throat, but it also found itself without the financial organization which Hurok has built up through the country. The results have become apparent already, and they seem to be serious. In its first two stops of the 1946-47 season, New York and Boston, the Ballet Theatre has arrived in town...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...