Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retirement had served 21 Secretaries as minister extraordinary to the entrances, hats, canes and confidences of the world's diplomatic great. Savoy-isms: "When I meet a man who is domineering to his inferiors, I know he is sycophantic to his superiors, and no gentleman"; on speaking the language of diplomacy successfully: "Never say what you want to say, and never say anything before you think twice...
...Great (who saved Rome from Attila's sacking Huns); Lucius III (who instigated the Inquisition); Innocent III (who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed in his master plan to conquer and unify Italy); Pius VII (whose Concordat with Napoleon restored Catholicism to France); Leo XIII (whose encyclical, Rerum Novarum, first...
...vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since out of date) that "the fact of being a tennis player is . . . held to be proof that a man is a gentleman...
...moment I hoped, wildly, that this gentleman . . . was, indeed, about to be shorn of his locks. However, nothing so apropos happens in this life. I found to my disappointment that a tame and civilized barber, far from doubling for Delilah, was merely obeying Mr. Lewis' orders. These were for his usual soup bowl haircut, accentuating the top foliage...
...Gentleman of an Old School...