Word: gentlemanly
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...Boston Symphony have said, "He was such a gentleman that many times we gave him much more than he asked for or really deserved...
...acre estate of Gentleman Farmer Hubert Phipps, the Kennedys bought 39 acres for $26,000-a bargain by local standards. The one-story home, built on a concrete slab, will have seven bedrooms, 5½ baths and will cost an estimated $70,000. There will be no swimming pool. Instead, the Kennedys have dug out an acre and a half for a man-made lake, and will stock it with bass, perch and bluegills...
...Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week it was apparent that he can play even harder than he plows...
...those spontaneous expressions of people-to-people friendship that can take even a more practiced U.S. diplomat by surprise. After inspecting the new USIS library in downtown Algiers, G. Mennen Williams, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was on his way out when up dashed an enthusiastic gentleman. Soapy got the hand, but the beard got him-in a bristly, both-cheeks embrace. The Algerians were all for Williams because he observed the sunrise-to-sundown Moslem fast of Ramadan-plus the fact that their government had decided to headline the U.S. emergency aid (40,000 tons...
Williston's manner in class was always characterized by the greatest urbanity and kindliness, seasoned with an acute sense of humor. His students remember him as the last member of the Law Faculty to wear a wing collar to every lecture, displaying the mark of a true gentleman...