Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, it says, "pressures for academic achievement are rigorous," but the College is "likely to be extraordinarily gratifying to the scholar, the intellectual, the grind, the highly motivated plodder-to all but the traditional candidate seeking a leisurely gentleman...
...centipede's version of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. With the election over, Borge has also decided that the White House is in humor's public domain again: "I had the great honor [muttered aside] and vice versa to meet the President of the United States-Gentleman Bird. He approached me at 70 miles per hour, lifted me up by my ears, and pronounced me a Great Dane...
...JOHN LOCKE: "One might call him the first modern English philosopher to write like a gentleman. His tone expresses confidence in the essential reasonableness of God, Nature and Man and in the fundamental stability of the English Constitution. There is said to be an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, but I doubt if any kind of philosophy has ever been, in all its implications, more hostile to poetry than that of Locke...
...Justice Black was indeed a teetotaler until the age of 65, but now drinks an occasional "orange bourbon": Virginia Gentleman and orange juice on the rocks...
...Tyler was the Whig vice-presidential candidate in 1840. "Tippecanoe" was used to glamorize Gentleman Farmer William Henry Harrison, who had scored a dubious victory over the Indians in a skirmish at Tippecanoe Creek 29 years earlier, but routed Martin Van Buren in the election. A more forgettable Whig slogan affirmed: "With Tip and Tyler we'll bust Van's biler...