Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Timbertop helped mold the young Prince's sense of duty, Trinity College at Cambridge?his next stop, by family decree?opened up his personality. Charles is a slow but dogged study; his bachelor's degree from Trinity was only an undistinguished "second class, division two"?a sort of gentleman's C. But Lord Butler, master of Trinity, praised the student Prince for what was, in fact, a considerable accomplishment: he was the first member of the royal family ever to earn a degree. Not only had Charles taken time out for state visits abroad and his elaborate investiture...
...chuckling): I demand you: When, dear Amy (cher ami), do gentleman trains go toward Lady Nice...
...come under the influence of men with such high moral and ethical purpose as the Corporation members profess to have. I don't accuse them of plagiarism, but the last time I read such self-serving hypocrisy on the subject was in a recent Times editorial authored by another gentleman famous for his compassion for the downtrodden, William F. Buckley. Sankar Swaminathan...
...father, and finally a car slowed down and glided over to the curb. Eagerly I bounded over, dragging my busted valise (memories of East Brunswick floating through my head), only to find the occupant of the car was not my friend but a paunchy, middle-aged, businessman-looking Oriental gentleman who asked, "Can I give you a lift somewhere? Is anyone coming to get you? I could take you wherever you want to go. Do you want...
Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco has been facing some rough weather in the sunny Caribbean. Charged with embezzling $224 million from the now defunct I.O.S. Ltd. mutual fund empire, Vesco fled from the U.S. to Costa Rica in 1972. He is now ensconced as a gentleman farmer on a 4,000-acre country estate with his wife and children. Threatened with deportation once Costa Rica's President-elect, Rodrigo Carazo, takes office in May, Vesco applied for citizenship, listing his nationality as Italian (he was born in Detroit but claimed the nationality of his father). Trouble is, Italy and Costa...