Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy. I told him he'd come a long way, with the help of the Lord." A black nurse's aide smiled and said, "When I was voting I felt good about it. I've known Mr. Carter. He was always nice-a Christian gentleman. And I believe he'll do good." Both of them had helped put into the White House a man they knew personally, whose life had touched theirs, a shining illustration of what Election Day is about...
...script girl and he an impoverished, hard-drinking writer trying to earn some money in the movies, the pair kept their passion one of Hollywood's quietest affairs. Now Meta is telling all, both in November's Los Angeles magazine and an upcoming book titled A Loving Gentleman. "He wanted me whenever I was willing to go with him to his hotel room," she remembers. "Bill kept hinting that one day he would be free to marry me. He put it in his letters every so often, just to keep me going." Instead of marriage, however, he offered...
...senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street hip, and being skinny with black moustache, owes more than just a nod to Groucho in his delivery. Vincent DiBenedetto, Marc Johnson and Philip Murray take their bit parts (they sing triple as Lycus's eunuchs, slaves and the soldiers...
...National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and a new suburban Cleveland shopping mall proudly displays his Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basket-Weave Mark Two Gentleman's Flying Machine with its unique autopilot FRED (Freehand Remembering Empirical Doodling system). Starting this month, the makers of Wall-Tex wall coverings will bring Emett's wry whatsits and dotty doodads into the American home with prepasted wallpapers celebrating the inventions he prefers to call Things. Long as they...
...machine "has a great safety factor: it doesn't move." His Far Tottering Railway was a hot ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered by a Wandering Hot Air Brazier and "a swarm of underslung butterflies providing a trivial lift to the nose section...