Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...having to work hard for something detracts from getting it. He's fond of saying that if he doesn't win the presidency, so be it; he can always go fishing. He's not fond of books, and he told a group of schoolchildren that you can get a gentleman's C and end up successful. He insists he can hire foreign policy expertise, as if he doesn't need to acquire it painstakingly...
...change the outcome. Let's hope that's not why Bush chose McGinn for a reprieve. It would be a step backward in his maturation if he were to use the case to show he is always right. Matters of life and death are one test in which no gentleman would settle...
...Faculty and students remembered Marius--who taught classes on such writers as Shakespeare, Twain and Faulkner--as a devoted teacher and "Southern gentleman" who loved writing. He retired from Harvard last year after becoming sick in order to finish his fourth novel...
...Ring Tricks. Jon wanted his proposal to be a surprise, so he had to invent a ruse to steal one of Jill's rings long enough to compare it to his pinky, then return it before she noticed. Since Jon, the perfect gentleman, had already asked Jill's family's permission for her hand in marriage, he was able to have Jill's grandmother's diamond reset in a new engagement ring for Jill...
...first floor anterooms with a gentleman caller, the door had to remain open. Radcliffe honored its solemn obligation to guard our purity...