Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lifelong friend of Dr. Hargis, I have never seen any indication of any moral impropriety on his part. He is a family man, a gentleman and a dedicated preacher of the Gospel. There is not a more honest, sincere and dedicated Christian patriot anywhere. He is respected internationally as a humanitarian and as a man of high moral, ethical and spiritual standards...
...jumped to her feet and ' applauded wildly. Nixon half rose and applauded perfunctorily in turn. When he was told later that a news account described him as having stood and applauded the song, Nixon angrily replied through an aide: "Like hell I did! It was just a gentleman-to-a-lady gesture. I stood up for a lady who was standing, not for the song." Nonetheless, though Nixon presumably did not want to endorse Peking's position on Taiwan, he had allowed himself to be at least partly sandbagged on a crucial issue. The inclusion of the Taiwan...
Vidal's favorite public act is playing the gentleman bitch...
Barnaby, himself a gentleman, then proceded to demonstrate his thanks. Unveiling a team which he claimed "couldn't have carried Princeton's racquets on the court without permission in November," Barnaby sat back and watched a "tremendous win," a 6-3 triumph over the favored Tigers which makes the Crimson the odds-on favorite to dethrone Princeton as the nine-man intercollegiate champions...
...soulful as a bandleader's. Kluger also provides a contrapuntal portrait of John W. Davis, who ran for the Democrats against Calvin Coolidge in 1924. A brilliant lawyer who served as counsel to Eugene Debs, Alger Hiss and Robert Oppenheimer, Davis was also what Kluger calls a "gentleman racist." At 80, wearing a cutaway, he appeared before the Supreme Court defending segregation by ingenious psychological and legal arguments...