Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Press section, the Op-Ed page was described as "pioneered by the Pulitzers in the old New York morning World" [Aug. 10]. It is quite true that Ralph Pulitzer, gentleman, poet and husband of famed Historian Margaret Leech, was publisher of the World during those great days of newspaperdom...
...trial, Flanagan had his shoulder-length hair shorn, donned a neat jacket and, unlike Abbie Hoffman and the rest of the Chicago Seven, behaved like a perfect young gentleman. It helped, of course, that the weight of the evidence showed that Elrod's neck had not been broken by a kick or bludgeoning. Witnesses testified that Elrod had been injured while trying to tackle Flanagan (TIME, June...
...once ticketed a misparked car belonging to hot-tempered Diva Maria Callas. His action touched off a string of unearthly trills and cadenzas. The soprano was fined for only a traffic violation, but Opera Manager Alberto Tantini was able to fix things with Police Chief Aldo Ballarini. A third gentleman of Verona, the magistrate, saw it all quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when...
...Gentleman Georgy. Meredith was born in 1828 into an identity crisis. The son of a bankrupt tailor who married the family cook, he was brought up so properly by more respectable relatives that he came to be known as "Gentleman Georgy." There were further confusions...
...only has Cyril Ritchard directed the first play in the trilogy but he has also assigned to himself the delectable role of the actual historical General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne. Normally I am constitutionally opposed to anyone's functioning as director and performer in the same production: but in this instance at least, Burgoyne does not enter until well into the last...