Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest," offered Government Counsel A. J. Campbell, "that when a gentleman visits the apartment of a lady of distinction, it is impolite to fall asleep while talking to the lady...
Died. Prince Friedrich of Prussia, 54, Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson and a gentleman farmer, who spent World War II as a volunteer farm laborer in England and became a British subject, but later returned home to resume his royal titles; by drowning, presumably suicide, the same day his wife of 20 years, Brewery Heiress Lady Brigid Guinness, started divorce action; in the Rhine River near Wiesbaden...
Rusk, in this respect, resembles his Southern predecessor, John C. Calhoun, who believed that political affairs were "subject to laws as fixed as matter itself." Like Calhoun, Rusk grew up in the back country of the rural South yet still adopted the ways of a Southern gentleman...
Garrigues, cornered by reporters in Rome as he was about to set off for Seville, said stiffly: "It is the duty of a gentleman not to reply to such questions." In London, Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, chimed in, calling the rumors "rubbish," and even the former Kennedy White House nanny, Maud Shaw (see BOOKS), got into the act. "I often told Mrs. Kennedy she should think of remarrying," Maud said. "But she would look at me so distressed and say, 'Oh, Miss Shaw, I just couldn't ever...
...genitals made this group's day. They nervously sat through Eaux d' Artifice, a film disappointingly about fountains. The old gentleman, who apparently had seen Scorpio Rising before, attempted to quiet the group's unrest. "Never you mind," he told his followers, squinting down a neighboring dress with his one good eye, "They'll be on that screen (snicker) in the Lord's good time." The religious reference disturbed a young rebel next to him, who sank back in his seat combing his 1956 ducktail, and angrily staring at the more Modish haircuts of the collegians...