Word: gentlemanly
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...young lawyer, Royall Tyler, met Abigail--or "Nabby," as her family called her -- in Braintree in 1782. Tyler was already known as something of a writer, and Mrs. Adams wrote her husband, "I am not acquainted with any young Gentleman whose attainments in literature are equal to his." Adams was far from taken with the idea of Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right...
...elderly, respectable looking gentleman walking around with his head buried in his hands this week, it's probably an official of the Harvard Department of Athletics...
...alumnus and faculty adviser of Delta Upsilon, I would rather have a black or yellow gentleman for a fraternity brother than a white jerk; and I do have brothers from all three races. But when any outsider tries to force my own or any other fraternity [June 25] to change its constitution or take in anyone whom it does not want, then he has me to fight...
...Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made for Evgeny), doing a "slow twist" at the Club 84, and closing the swank Café de Paris at 3:30 a.m. Gossips buzzed that the poet was resuming a romance. "No, we are only old friends," said...
...women! I love the sex," sighs Macheath the Highwayman. "I must have 'em." But they have him, for when Macheath promises marriage to Polly Peachum, Polly's Parents bribe the gentleman robber's other bawds to turn him in for the reward. Mac's other love, Lucy Lockit, frees him, only to have him recaptured. And he would hang, were it not for every opera's prescribed happy ending. Macheath escapes from Tyburn and rejoins Polly in a fullthroated choral finale...