Word: gentlemanly
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...being used to prop open the Victrola; I can't imagine Williams' Amanda tolerating such treatment of a picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura remembers...
...tough-minded as he is candid, Schlesinger leaves little doubt that he is determined to reform and redefine the CIA's role. Said he recently to an old CIA hand: "The trouble with this place is that it has been run like a gentleman's club-but I'm no gentleman...
...shattered one of his legs. During a long, painful convalescence, he turned out of boredom to two popular inspirational works on the lives of the saints and the life of Christ, and his long process of conversion began. Months later, at the Benedictine abbey of Montserrat, he exchanged his gentleman's clothes for a rough pilgrim's habit and dedicated his sword and dagger to the shrine's famed Black Virgin...
...McHenry, Ill., a gentleman farmer reported that at least four had been stolen. A Monticello, Ill., landowner found that 20 had been taken from her property overnight. In Columbus, Ohio, citizens discovered that five were missing from a city park. The objects that are becoming increasingly attractive to Midwestern thieves are not the underworld's usual stock in trade. They are black walnut trees, which are disappearing at an alarming rate from the north-central forests of the U.S., where most of them grow. In many places where the best of the giant shade trees once stood, beautifying landscapes...
...last, justice for John Burgoyne! To descend through history tagged as a fool and tarred with the nickname "Gentleman Johnny" is hard duty for a commander whose ineptitude certainly was no worse than what is customarily thought acceptable, even praiseworthy, in general officers. Burgoyne bears the responsibility for England's defeat at Saratoga during the American Revolution. He planned and executed the campaign of 1777, but this crisis in the struggle between England and her American colonies came much nearer to turning in a different direction than is imagined in schoolboy history...