Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chen Chia had gone to Harvard as a young gentleman of the old school. How could it have been otherwise? Only sons of well-to-do families could afford to travel to America and spend several years there. And when he returned home he and his colleagues were a part of the small upper crust of Chinese society...
...leader had been jailed in the rioting, but he made it clear that he thought the young man should have been locked up. "Patience has a limit," he warned. "At any moment we can show that we do not carry weapons as ornaments." As for Perón: "That gentleman can do or try to do anything he wishes, except become President of the republic in the future...
Died. Antonio Segni, 81, former President of Italy; in Rome. A longtime Christian Democratic stalwart, Segni was twice Premier and several times a Cabinet minister. He was also a gentleman farmer, which did not stop him from devising a controversial land reform program that cost him one-fourth of his own land. He was elected President in 1962, but a stroke forced him to step down...
Then a couple of tricky reverses Edgar claims to have been taking his attacks, and after a trip to town, announces plans to divorce his wife and marry Kurt's ex spouse That gentleman, meanwhile, has taken possession of Alice and their plans to leave together are squashed only by Edgar's threat to reveal Kurt's history of embezzlement. But a final seizure takes Edgar out of the picture, leaving him paralyzed. He states inanely at the audience and groans out words which only his wife can translate for us. Kurt leaves husband and wife to revel in their...
...hadn't learned to speak any English when he began to play soccer in St Louis "A gentleman came up to me from Art's Boys Club who had heard that I played soccer in Greece, and he asked my brother and I if we wanted to play ball He had to use hand signals and sign language, because I couldn't understand any English...