Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small part of the vast journalistic empire sees Goldwater as a man-not a monster; with normal dedicated followers-not lunatics; as a staunch Republican who really believes what he preaches-not a showman out to impress the press; and finally, as an honest, but perhaps too frank gentleman who has been mercilessly treated by the mass media...
...students digging up cadavers in deserted graveyards, little girls and boys sold into prostitution-Restif saw them all. And he set them down as he saw them, in odd, choppy verbal snapshots, some grotesque, a few funny, but all in appalling contrast to the occasional fine lady or powdered gentleman whose carriage splatters them with mud or casually kills someone...
Married. Princess Desirée, 26, granddaughter of Sweden's Gustaf VI Adolf; and Baron Niclas Silfverschiold, 29, wealthy Swedish gentleman farmer; in a Lutheran ceremony attended by Scandinavia's Who's Who; in Stockholm...
Harvard at this time had one of the most star-studded Faculties of its history. Josiah Royce, Herbert Palmer, George Santayana, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland and George Baker have made this era known as the Golden Age of the Yard. Nevertheless, most students were satisfied with the "gentleman's C" often acquired through last minute cram courses at private tutoring schools. Faculty members met the problem of a rather disinterested student body in different ways. Kittredge maintained stern discipline during his lectures. If a student left the room when the bell rang and Kittredge was still speaking...
Downed Magnum. In his 74 years, Nehru traveled an immense distance-from spoiled child to charismatic leader, from model English gentleman to Oriental father figure. Born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, he belonged to a wealthy, Westernized family of the highest Brahmin class. When he was 15, the family sailed for England and the boy was entered at Harrow, where, as he put it, "I was never an exact fit." He moved on to Cambridge and two years of law studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties...