Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laurinda Barrett, as Emilia, deserves a kind word for her prison scene, and Theodore Sorel for his yeoman doubling as a lord a trial officer, and a gentleman...
After the last jump had been cleared and Sunday's addition to the 35,000 people turnout began filtering out of the polo grounds, I noticed the previously repugnant odor was not nearly as noticeable. Nor did I look with disdain at the gentleman, who with a most affected-sounding English accent said, "Say that was jolly good fun now, wasn't it?" Jolly good indeed...
...crime seemed like a grotesque parody of Upstairs, Downstairs. Richard John Bingham is the seventh Earl of Lucan, an Irish title dating from 1795. He made gentleman's marks at Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, then prepped at a London bank until one spectacular night 15 years ago when he won $56,000 at chemin de fer. After that, "Lucky Lucan" became an inveterate gambler...
...month before his 30th birthday in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a sailing accident on the Mediterranean. Back in London, the Gentleman's Magazine harrumphed: "We ought as justly to regret the decease of the Devil." A far different post-mortem came from Lord Byron, who called Shelley "the best and the least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison...
...Will you please resign?" or, perhaps, "Will you address yourself to the price of beans in Liverpool?" Confusion was compounded by the Commons' tradition of referring to members by their constituencies rather than their surnames. Relatively few listeners, presumably, realized that a reference to "the right honorable gentleman from Bexley, Sidcup" meant former Prime Minister Edward Heath...