Word: gentlemanly
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...gentleman offered to put up three marchers in his studio apartment, and the woman countered, "How about six?" And though everyone is anxious for the commune effect. there is an unconvincing cardboard sign on a door to the rear, warning "Staff Only!" Behind this door are two more doors, one labelled "Special Staff Only...
...things Mr. Taylor's stories are about. Included in the complex stories is a subtle description of black-white relations in the thirties, forties, and fifties: as in the narration of a "fancy woman's" concern for what the kitchen help think of her when she visits a rich gentleman's house for a week. Or "A Wife of Nashville's" relations with her cooks. Or the bitter introversion of old Aunt Munsie: a one-time slave, she comes to realize that to Dr. Tolliver's children-whom she raised-she is Aunt Munsie only in the village of Thornton...
...Henreid still looks remarkably like the same suave gentleman who lit Bette Davis' cigarettes in Now Voyager and watched Bogart and Bergman yearn after each other in Casablanca. These days, he spends most of his time in back of the camera, directing episodes of TV programs like Bracken's World...
...same I decided to call the Ticket Office. The gentleman to whom I spoke was not only sympathetic but also unusually informative. I learned there are six such blind spots in each of the thirty-seven sections. as well as an undetermined number of seats in the lower bleachers of section 31 on the Harvard side and of the corresponding section on the opponent's side which are wholly or largely blocked by the Team's presence...
...this goes not only for the gentleman at the Ticket Office. I'm also talking about some of the ladies at our dining rooms who stand in mortal terror lest Bumble the Beadle see them giving us more than our ration of roast-beef...