Word: gentlemanly
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Author Cleland, the never-do-well bohemian who first put Fanny between covers, wrote the book because he needed money, but sold it for a mere 20 guineas. He thereafter pursued his passion for philology and died a scholar. His publisher, made rich by reprints, died a proper gentleman...
...neither pretty nor witty, though unmistakably a virgin. He, at 42, was both wag and scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan candidly admitted to the Daily Express that "the young voter is bored with me" and that the "young ministers I put in a year ago may want to get rid of the old gentleman at the top." During the height of the scandal, said Mac, it was "touch and go" for several days on his "chucking it all in." Added Mac: "If it had not been for my wife and loyal staff here, I don't think I could have got through. But I soon decided that there was one essential duty to perform...
...only in America, and although Ike could see his three fellow conversationalists, none of them could see him, or one another. As air time neared, the French government had decided that the remarks of the old gentlemen, particularly Monnet, might be inimical to the views of their own Old Gentleman, so they refused the use of the receiving station at Pleumeur-Bodou, which alone serves all of Europe in Telstar communications. Britain's Goonhilly Down sending station kept the show alive for the U.S. and Canada, but it had to lumber back over the Atlantic...
...more of his hotel rooms than the Gideon Bible. A Roman Catholic who is relieved to be back in good standing after shedding Zsa Zsa, Hilton constantly composes prayers to the Almighty and has them printed in Hilton employee publications, likes to think that "God is a gentleman." His speeches are sometimes written by a Jesuit Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan of the University of Santa Clara, and at big receptions Hilton does his best to divide his time evenly between the clergy and the pretty girls...