Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something seems lost the translation, but henceforth, says the department, a brewmaster will perform his duties as a brewing consultant. A governess will be a child mentor. In an incomprehensibly backward step, a valet will be known as a gentleman's attendant. One will henceforth be seen into the world by a birth attendant, not a midwife. And an offal man's duties in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants will become the awful work of an offal separator. What of the Labor Department's own Manpower Administration? Says a spokesperson: "They haven't figured that...
...referendum] in favor of staying in the Community." Wilson's words were greeted with considerable cynicism. "Large numbers on this side always thought you would do it," sarcastically observed William Hamilton, a pro-Market Labor M.P. Added Liberal Party Chief Jeremy Thorpe with heavy irony: "The right honorable gentleman deserves to be congratulated on the consistency he has always shown on European matters...
...serve as the consul for a South American country. When the government of his native land was overthrown by a left-wing coup, Mr. D. was out of a job and started betting the horses full-times. The socio-political aspects of horseracing can be plainly seen in the gentleman's moved insight into the sports...
...real gentleman, just as congenial as he could be," reported California highway patrol Captain Otie Hunter, after Henry Ford II, 57, had been arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss, 35, a sometime model for the Ford Motor Co. (Ford's wife Cristina was off in Katmandu at the coronation of the King of Nepal.) When Ford flunked a roadside sobriety test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test...
...emotion to the coverage of civil rights. He was also a workmanlike but disappointed novelist. When he became the Times's Washington bureau chief and later took over the retired Arthur Krock's "In the Nation" column it appeared that Wicker's metamorphosis into a gentleman-journalist was complete...