Word: gentlemanly
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...Hong Kong, Silent Witness proved a thorough professional, and despite-or because of-that cruel cut, a perfect gentleman. He never threw a tantrum, and was so laid-back that Cruz called him lazy. Proffer a carrot and he wouldn't crunch it like other horses, but nibble at it from your hand. His running style was as straightforward as his personality: bound out of the barrier, cruise to the lead or park just off it, gallop relentlessly to the line. "He had the reflexes of a springbok," says South African Felix Coetzee, the only jockey to have ridden Silent...
...pages; $75) celebrates wheels past, from 1894 to 1942, and the older these miniatures are, the more charm radiates from their wire wheels and peeling running boards. From the Jones & Bixler touring car complete with uniformed chauffeur, to the double-deck city bus populated by "clown, fireman, porter and gentleman," to the motorcycle steered by Popeye, Bill Holland's photographs offer a bright valedictory to objects that managed to be mass-produced without compromising their jaunty integrity and cast-iron elegance...
...perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style is an echo of a game no longer seen on the courts of elite tennis, a gentleman's game of long, elegant strokes, a game in which the ball is caressed rather than pulverized, a game best controlled at the net. In half an hour he barely misses a shot. "I'm used to it," he says of the heat...
...many of whom regularly dine there. At One World, patrons have given Cerreta a car, bought new dishes, arranged to professionally clean her carpets, supplied new tile for the restaurant bathrooms, and donated property for an organic garden and funded a new irrigation system for it. Last week, a gentleman left a $50 bill next to an empty bowl of soup at SAME. Since opening, one man has regularly come in and left money on the counter without eating, stating "I was blessed today so I though I'd pass it on." He's homeless...
...night sky with a brightly shining north star lines the back of the manger. Another large nativity scene sits in front of the statehouse at Boston Common. With the golden dome in the background, Christmas lights at the top of the manger illuminate a troubling scene: as a kind gentleman resting on a nearby bench pointed out, “the babe is missing.” It might be the work of vandals, or the baby Jesus might appear on the 25th. Either way, a solemn Mary and Joseph look solemnly upon a manger full of hay. For something...