Word: gentlemanly
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...tell yourself you can do more by staying. This is defensible. Often you can. Second is the perception that nobody will care. This is partly because nobody has ever done it and made a difference. Third, it seems a betrayal of your boss. Finally, it's not how a gentleman plays the game...
...costume, petting dogs and stiffly modeling a slinky gown. In the same issue, the Times says that Eva, who was bored stiff by Hitler's political harangues, tried to make herself look more attractive by stuffing handkerchiefs in her bra. She called der Führer "the old gentleman," and it was not until three years after they met that they finally bedded down on the same red velvet sofa that Hitler used to receive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Dictator Benito Mussolini. Said Eva once: "It's a good job they don't know what really...
...candid, concerned.... Oh, but of course you must have met him. There hasn't been a sherry party he's missed. He's Derek C. Bok, he's The Answer, The Savior, The Lucky Ticket, The Academy's Messiah. He's The New President-"and a better gentleman," they say in Harvard clubs around the country, "A nicer guy," they say in the Dillon Field locker rooms, "A cooler head," they say in the Adams House dining room, "a more well-considered selection," they say in the Faculty club, you just couldn't find...
House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills is a figure to be reckoned with in Washington, as President Nixon discovered when he announced his plans for revenue sharing and quickly ran into Mills' brick wall. The gentleman from Arkansas has long been the principal congressional arbiter of federal finance, but now-for the first time-he plans a kingmaking role in presidential politics...
...tempting to confuse this gentle, mild-mannered man with his heroes. Like The Last Gentleman, he tends to become addled in New York, a city that he generally tries to avoid. He is no longer a compulsive moviegoer, but he leaves the television on-without sound-all evening long. "I'm afraid the world will end when I'm not looking," he says. During lunch he watches .Days of Our Lives. "I love the recurring themes in soap-opera serials. The women get pregnant and the men get amnesia. The perfect fictional character would have progressive amnesia...