Word: gentlemanly
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...terms of the latest proposal to tenants have not been disclosed, due to what a Harvard spokesman called a "gentleman's agreement" between the University and the tenants...
DIED. Ngaio Marsh, 82, New Zealand author of 33 mystery novels over a career of 48 years; in Christchurch, New Zealand. Marsh belonged to the classic school of British writers who preferred gentleman detectives - like her own Roderick Alleyn-and who reveled in complicated puzzle plots. A director and producer in both Britain and New Zealand, Marsh used her theater experiences as background in such books as Night at the Vulcan (1951) and Killer Dolphin...
...President Theodore Roosevelt's fourth cousin once removed. Franklin was her only child, and she kept him in dresses and long curls until he was five. He was 14 before he first went to school, to Groton and then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman's C average" and yearned to be popular. Though he became editor of the Crimson, he could not make the freshman football team, and he was crushed at failing to get into Harvard's fanciest club, the Porcellian. Girls who encountered him at debutante dances considered him a lightweight...
...bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word...
...boredom. Was this bigger than last week's ball? What about the decorations? Where did that dress come from? What do you think this cost? And where in God's name did Mimi get those rubies? "I think they went through the telephone directory," complains one older gentleman, unhappy at the size of the ball. "I could invite anyone I wanted, and I did," a radiant Mimi says. "It's wonderful, beautiful." That is what her mother thinks too. "I'm having a ball at my ball," she booms again and again...