Word: gentlemanly
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...informed what they were protesting," Henry Kahn '64, president of the HRYS said. "All I know is an obnoxious gentleman in a paisley tie and an ROTC uniform obstructed the door to our meeting room...
...obnoxious gentleman" identified himself as Douglas MacArthur III, and said he was a former member of the YAF. He was subsequently found to be James Gaffney '64. "We're picketing because we don't think the House should be used for this kind of thing," Gaffney said. He refused to comment on whether he was violating army regulations by picketing in uniform. In the background, a victrola played "Be Kind to Our Fine-Feathered Friends...
...Gentleman. Kennedy, when he took the rostrum, ignored the attack. Faubus claimed afterward that many Arkansans, outraged by Kennedy's stand on civil rights, had urged him not to introduce the President. "I figured I'd have to say it to protect myself," said he, "and I'd rather say it when he's here than after he's left." Complained Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette: "We might have wished that Mr. Faubus could have behaved himself like a gentleman for at least...
Blood and guts are the main ingredients of the grand sport. But rugger is still a gentleman's sport. After getting your wind knocked out or after a particularly jarring tackle, one bears (I am told), "Terribly sorry old chap!" or "Pardon me, laddie!" Whether international or local in origin, this custom sets the tone for rugby in New England
...that stately novelist who lived in baronial isolation in Oxford, Miss., carving great slabs of novels out of primeval truth? Was he that country squire who had a paneled trophy room and bought English saddles with kickout stirrups and riding outfits from Abercrombie & Fitch? Was he, perhaps, that barefoot gentleman who entered the dining room of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis after depositing a bottle of whisky under the stop light at the intersection of Second and Union...