Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taxation. The president of the United States says its government should grant a rebate to each taxpayer. Up to $1000 for everyone! Isn't it a bit odd that even knowledgable observers laughed when a couple of years back, a more honourable gentleman wanted to give $1000 away--to everyone, not merely to those who paid high taxes...
...Angleton assumed responsibility for counter-espionage-combatting the activities of adversary spooks round the world. Victor Marchetti, the ex-CIA official who turned agency critic, said that colleagues regarded Angleton as "a gentleman, a connoisseur of fine wines, an intellectual who knew orchids, and a fanatic who was always able to keep his fanaticism in rein...
...respected by black and white as a first-class sportsman and gentleman -all over the world...
...Snow continues to operate as the self-assigned recording secretary of the last gentleman's club on earth. There he sits, at 69, in his cracking leather chair in the corner, this son of a shoe-factory clerk from Leicester, watching the Old Parties of British aristocracy come and go, fretting over the State of the World, then settling down to a civilized meal as if it were their last: "Decanters on tables, lights beaming off cutlery and peach-fed cheeks...
...returned to Court, he had earned his forgiveness from the king." Later, during a paranoid inquisition following the revelation of the Popish Plot, his testimony led to the execution of an innocent man accused of being Catholic. And yet another time he and a friend seduced a country gentleman's young wife and then carried her off to London--the cuckold hanged himself. Again, when brought to the attention of the king, "their story atoned for their offence...