Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heidelberg Army Hospital in West Germany. They fell in love -and soon fell afoul of Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which has been interpreted to hold that since Johnson was an enlisted man, Lieut. Follett was guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...
...days a persistent gentleman named Moses had a vision. In concert with the Lord, Moses bargained with the Pharoah and led the Israelites out of Egypt. But he ran into some difficulties in the desert. The Hebrews did not have enough time to stock up on provisions and Moses was at a loss as to how to feed them. But lo and behold, manna fell from heaven...
...born liar, a liar for a living." F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...
...befits a more than 200-year-old gentleman's dining and theatrical club that has numbered Presidents including John Adams and John Kennedy among its members, Harvard's Hasty Pudding is proudly behind the times. The annual high spot, a transvestite revue replete with high-kicking chorus boys, is garnished with a "Hasty Pudding Woman-of-the-Year Award." This year the honors went to Faye Dunaway, 33, hailed as "the most explosive package of beautiful talent to have hit the stage and screen in years." Faye, whose only sizable screen detonation occurred in 1967 when she starred...
...Confucius was The Master, after all, and his sayings reflect disdain for both the humble peasant and his opinion. "You must practice the manner of gentlemen, not that of the common people," he told one student. "The gentleman is dignified, but never haughty; common people are haughty, but never dignified." As for his Way, The Master said, "The common people can be made to follow it; they cannot be made to understand...