Word: gentlemanly
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...occasions to visit with Senator Byrd in his Washington office and have attended his annual August picnics. I can attest to the fact that if there is one man who is responsible for keeping our country from going completely socialistic since the Roosevelt era, that man would be the gentleman from Virginia...
...Gentleman: "A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite night club when he leaves with his girl...
...Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort of David Niven almost turned fop, with balletic precision in every mannered gesture. George Bolton comes over well, in Article 330, as the dogmatic embodiment of La Brige's constant antagonist, the Law; and as the Old Gentleman who informs Boubouroche of his long-standing cuckoldry, he is properly precious. Adele, the beautiful deceiver who reduces Boubouroche to grovelling prostration, is played by Penny Hays, mistress of the cultivated pout and expert as the picture of outraged innocence manipulating male gullibility. Jay V. Pati's Boubouroche is a little...
...company and Hollywood only six years ago when, as he said, "actors like Kirk Douglas started producing movies." Once, on a movie set, he scolded a submissive assistant with a memorable command: "Don't say yes until I'm finished talking." He also made some memorable pictures-Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, All About Eve, Viva Zapata...
Melbourne knew he could not be a gentleman and a politician at the same time, and he preferred to remain a gentleman even in politics. Kennedy, at a time when his own programs are being scuttled, may find some consolation in the philosophical way Melbourne reacted to defeats: "Nobody should be troublesome; they should be made to realize that it is the worst thing there...