Word: gentlemanly
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...letter, "What it means to be a liberally educated man, these days, is very different from what that term meant as short a time ago as 1965, when the Doty report was accepted." General Education today, he said, "still has about it the patina of the education of a gentleman...
...went down there once and that's it," said one grizzled gentleman...
...month when someone noted that the young priest bore a suspicious resemblance to the figure in a Red Chinese propaganda poster. The artist, a little investigation revealed, had copied a portrait of Chairman Mao as a youth of 27, striding through Kiangsi province in China's traditional gentleman's robe...
...focus and rich of pastel-remains affectionate and without condescension throughout. The performers are uniformly excellent, with a special nod to young Mr. Vogel and Will Geer, who at film's end delivers a cautionary lesson to a stolid, recalcitrant Lucius in his best grandfatherly tones: "A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he didn't instigate them himself, didn't say no though he knew he should. Now go wash your face. A gentleman cries too, but he always washes his face...
Snoopy notwithstanding, the Red Baron was "a gentleman throughout" who went out of his way to give World War I adversaries an even break. So insists Manfred von Richthofen's great-niece Carmen, 24, a dark-haired charmer who, of all things, pilots a typewriter for the U.S. Army in Germany...