Word: gentlemanly
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...studies legislation diligently, is ever alert to what others dismiss as unimportant. "Mr. Speaker," Gross cries when a colleague seeks unanimous consent to pass a minor appropriations bill without debate, "reserving the right to object, can the gentleman tell us just what this is all about?" If Gross doesn't like the explanation-as in the case of a bill for a historic memorial in Texas in which the $115,000 appropriation did not even cover the cost of the land-Gross declares loudly: No! With nonpartisan passion, Gross crusades against spending. When Kennedy was inaugurated, Gross protested that...
...always the II student, nor is he the hanger-on. He may be one of the students in the 550-650 range in the swung the admissions committee to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Club, Band, CRIMSON, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be ungraceful. "Harvard is a bag," Bender noted quite keenly. "You can say almost anything, cite , and prove...
...June of 1912, the senior class faced a portentous era. The present was fairly secure: the Republican party, big business, and the trust era had not yet faltered, and a gentleman's education was still...
...Estes he would have to check into the facts before he could approve the statement, Billie Sol replied: "Why? There's nothing wrong with it. The only place it's going is somewhere up in the Agriculture Department." Said Jackson: "Everybody thought he was such a Christian gentleman, and with his wide reputation, I made the mistake of believing him." After adding a mild warning that he had not made a complete audit of Estes' holdings, Jackson obediently put the statement on his stationery, sent it back to Estes-and a week later got a check...
...chilly evening last week, while visitors in evening dress strolled the lawns of his 135-acre estate, an old gentleman in tennis shoes sat in his 700-year-old manor house and reminisced. "Once I began to inherit family properties," he said, "it was really my job to build a better world. And besides, I always had so much sympathy for poor little Mozart...