Word: gentlemanly
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...Stade family are renowned horsemen. Skiddy's father, who was also named Skiddy--"He was what you called in those days a gentleman jockey," Skiddy Jr. says--founded the Museum of Racing in Saratoga, N.Y., along with Averill Harriman...
...fill them in for no more than $36,000-which he obeyed to the letter. "You are not going to get away with that sum for nothing," she added. "I expect to see you in Spain." Asked why he had been given such a sum by his mistress, the gentleman's gentleman presumed that "it was payment for services rendered . . . Makes me out a bit of a rogue, actually...
...later that day, Fischer offered Spassky "my sincerest apology" for "offending you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position. I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organization. I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with...
...Helene du-Laud-Allemans, French-born journalist; he for the third time, she for the first; on June 17 on Corsica. In declining to give his bride's age, Ustinov cracked: "She is younger than I am, but not so young as to make marriage to an elderly gentleman ridiculous...
...East Asian-American Relations" is much too fuzzy, Make up your mind: Do you want American or do you want East Asian? If you want to stay at Harvard-- and neither government nor Harper's (why not the Atlantic, for heaven's sake?) is the place for a young gentleman--you should look for another job. Have you ever thought of being a House Master? Or, better--I'm told all these newspapermen come to Harvard each year as Nieman Fellows. Surely they need someone to take care of them...