Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Just last week, after climbing over a number of seats, I plopped down near a gentleman who refused to make room for others. At this point, shoppers were lining up outside the doors and another guy asked the gentleman if he wouldn’t mind taking the next seat...
...statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions by such types of individuals as Mr. Nicholas Cuyler Bleecker who evidently can not understand...
...awesome: 6 ft. 8 in., 240 lbs., with the speed of a guard and the strength of a power forward. His game is spectacular. James combines Jordan's ease at filling up the box score (and the stands) with a ruthless instinct to win, a trait that Hill, a gentleman, and Carter, a diffident performer, surely lack. And like Jordan, James knows he can't do it alone. In fact, he is a complete team player who loves to pass the ball and make his teammates better: Iverson and Bryant can't claim much there. Despite securing a $90 million...
Despite his coyness on the topic, outrage against Penn nevertheless erupted during the question-and-answer session. The first gentleman to raise his hand attacked Penn’s politics, called the movie “trash,” and then questioned Penn about whether he wears a hair piece. The interrogation riled Penn, who yelled back at the man in an irritated voice as the man was escorted out of the theatre...
...British beau snatched her away mid-formal on Friday night, and she called in sick before the festivities could begin on Saturday. “I hope you’ll accept these flowers as a consolation,” she wrote in an apologetic note to the latter gentleman. Not quite a fairy tale ending...