Word: gentlemanly
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Breaking a gentleman's agreement that both right and left factions had managed to honor since the war began, leftist gunners zeroed in on the presidential palace at Baabda, six miles above the city. As some 80 shells crumped into the palace, President Suleiman Franjieh, 65, made a hasty exit in an armored limousine...
Police were mildly surprised to find a fully clothed gentleman posing for pictures in a Washington, D.C., fountain one morning last week. They were astonished to see the same person half an hour later, this time splashing in the Reflecting Pool on the Capitol Mall. "One of the cops asked my photographer something like 'Whatareyadoin?' " recalled Humor Columnist Art Buchwald, who explained that he was merely creating a cover for his new book, Washington Is Leaking. "But that was it. Tourists just walked by-like everybody stands up to their hips in Reflecting Pool water." Well, not exactly...
Like the new gentleman caller, Jimmy Carter went visiting the old Democratic power structure in Washington last week, a bouquet of primary victories under his arm. The night before his smashing victory in Illinois, he courted 30 heavyweight Democrats and journalists over dinner at the Georgetown home of Liberal Columnist Clayton Fritchey. The guests included Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Sol Linowitz and former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Moving from table to table between courses, Carter charmed nearly everyone and surprised many with his grasp of the issues...
...polite, middle-aged, slow-talking gentleman cornered me to discuss his model train collection. I escaped off the train and down a long dark passageway which led to the red line and a Quincy train...
...socialite who remarks in public that you are "not to the manner born," only one response is dignified of a gentleman--"To hell with that shit."--assuming that you have made the proclamation with your fly fully zipped up. Or so J.P. Donleavy quips in his latest book, The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners...