Word: gentlemanly
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Five minutes after the start of Saturday's rugby "A" game, a middle-aged gentleman with a beard and a British act came up to me and asked which team is Harvard. I told him that the Crimson was in red and white, and he told that the other team was the Boston rugby Club...
Genealogists are digging into the roots of the Roosevelt family tree to find out more about a mid-17th century gentleman recalled by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 50. Chatting with newsmen in Washington, the Under Secretary of Commerce explained that although he's related in one way or another to twelve U.S. Presidents, "including my father,"* it really doesn't help much in politics. There is one ancestor with contemporary significance, he added-his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, a second-generation American named Humphrey Johnson...
...Quine make the mistake of thinking that the muse of comedy is a rubber-limbed contortionist, and sometimes stretch the fun to the breaking point. Luckily, the supporting cast shows such spirit that Lemmon has to work hard for his share of the laughs. As the gentlemen's gentleman who would not hesitate one moment to help rub out a superfluous lady, Terry-Thomas hyphenates the movie with tomfoolery, holding whole scenes together by letting his face fall apart like a piece of shattered Limoges...
...cronies will go on trial later this month for having "caused damage to the economy amounting to 400,000 forints ($17,500)." No one explained just who or what had been damaged, but it seemed clear that, as one Budapest daily dejectedly commented, "the time for urimuri (gentleman's fun) is over...
...himself the apotheosis of the cultured, conservative Englishman. He was painfully reserved, with a huge store of natural dignity; he delighted in playing schoolboy practical jokes on his friends. The theme of his art was chaos and despair, death-in-life; yet in life he was the model Christian gentleman, kind and good-and in his last years supremely happy. At his death in London last week of pulmonary emphysema, it was clear that Thomas Stearns Eliot, 76, was one of the few major poets of a minor poetic age, and far and away the most influential man of letters...