Word: gentlemanly
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...Eastern League, and experienced its first losing record in League history, losing to Penn. Princeton, Dartmouth, Army, and Yale. The consistent and happy number two Harvard finish had turned into a fight to have a winning season. Harvard was caught being the leisurely country gentleman in a city full of sophisticated hustlers...
...started out at foil, and after a week, coach Marion, a stately Eastern European gentleman whose accent I found unintelligible for weeks, urged me to take a little vacation from fencing, and then forget the game altogether...
Gehlen turned the gentleman's avocation of spying - Sir John Master man still compares it to cricket - into big business. But Hohne and Zolling argue that, despite all his thermos-flask cameras and secret, secret ink, he still couldn't keep up with the times. Forced into retirement in 1968, he sat in his study on Lake Starnberg with a death mask of Frederick the Great looking down and wrote his memoirs (due out later this year) rather like Buffalo Bill after the frontier went thataway. For spying, like everything else, has gone automated...
Since Jefferson's day, the U.S. Senate has had a rule that no member can be absent from its sessions without permission. That quaint regulation is in a class with the custom that a gentleman always dresses for dinner or walks on the lady's curb side...
...facile a speaker as Muskie is ponderous. She has no hesitation about bruising the male ego. "I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing," she assured one rally. Her husband Conrad is introduced as the "future first gentleman." Such is the intensity of her emotions on the stump that she told an audience that as President she would sometimes be forced to bypass Congress and rule by "executive fiat...