Word: gentlemanly
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...soulful as a bandleader's. Kluger also provides a contrapuntal portrait of John W. Davis, who ran for the Democrats against Calvin Coolidge in 1924. A brilliant lawyer who served as counsel to Eugene Debs, Alger Hiss and Robert Oppenheimer, Davis was also what Kluger calls a "gentleman racist." At 80, wearing a cutaway, he appeared before the Supreme Court defending segregation by ingenious psychological and legal arguments...
...dinner at Rocky Raccoon's, a Washington restaurant featuring country music, and afterward made plans to meet again. No matter that Athlete Evert, 21, earned $362,227 last year, and that her escort has been unemployed since he graduated from Utah State University last May. Gentleman Jack picked...
...there was always some wag having the waiter bring me a tray of grapefruit. It got to be awfully tiresome." So which of his 62 films did he enjoy the most? Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played the Broadway music maker George M. Cohan. Says Jimmy, now a gentleman farmer in New York...
Irving Howe is one of those writers for whom the designation "a gentleman and a scholar" was minted. Professor of English at New York's Hunter College, literary critic and editor of the democratic-socialist magazine Dissent, Howe belongs to an intellectual tradition in which literature and politics, aesthetics and morals are not mutually exclusive...
...Strolling along the streets of New Hampshire, usually wearing only a business suit and not even a topcoat, despite the severity of the Granite State winter, was an athletic looking gentleman named Paul Fisher who told people he was a ball-point pen manufacturer from Chicago and was seeking the Democratic nomination for President. Fisher's platform, he said, was simple: abolish the income tax. 'That's nice', was the general reaction and most people immediately got the impression that Fisher was playing with half a deck...