Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as "the gentleman commandant" because he wore an impeccable white SS jacket and always sported a long riding crop while making the rounds at Treblinka, a Nazi death factory in Poland. He never personally mistreated a prisoner, and often arranged for brass bands to play while groups of 80 to 100 captives, most of them Jews, were herded into a building behind a railroad station for "showers" prior to "resettlement." The showers, of course, turned out to be sprays of gas pumped into the building by the engines from captured Soviet tanks...
Under the shadow of a Venetian palazzo, the figure strides onstage in the regalia of an affluent Victorian gentleman -top hat, frock coat, gloves and cane...
...short, is never off duty. That is his pride and his eventual torment. He is a compulsively strict constructionist of culture. A somewhat prickly man, the reader will guess. Well, George Jean Nathan anticipated that objection: "The critic is no gentleman, and the gentleman is no critic...
Everyone is like Ivanov-"a gentleman, a University man, and not remarkable in any way." And everyone can only say with Ivanov, "I do not understand." That is the Prologue and Epilogue of each of the comedies of the man who once confided to a close friend, "My ambition is to be idle and love a fat girl...
...them have been engaged in many public endeavors. Connors has been secretary of commerce... an other director was president of Duke University and he has done an outstanding job there as an educator. I think he brings a good background to the board. Geographically, we have a gentleman from Canada and a gentleman from Chicago...