Word: gentlemanly
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Because he is a gentleman, De Gaulle will be polite. Because he is De Gaulle, he will be relentless in pressing his case. But De Gaulle, a man who has just suffered the humiliation of seeing some of his top generals in mutiny against him, was in no position to condescend, even if his young guest is little more than half...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C. J. P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric who displays all the instincts of the aristocrat and no trace of the gentleman...
Starts Sunday: A double-barreled comedy bill, one shot of which misfires disastrously. The hit--and it's an Ole Bullseye--is Bob Hope's and Lucille Ball's quite wondorously funny The Facts of Life. The gentleman and lady named are prey to wanderlust; but their exploits are infinitely more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon...
...make this gesture. De Gaulle, instead of commanding Adenauer to Paris, wrote a personal note indicating that it would give him the greatest possible pleasure if the Chancellor would come to visit at the General's country place. The Chancellor replied that he would be charmed to accept a gentleman's invitation for the weekend...
F.D.R., who retired Acheson after a disagreement about the gold situation and later recalled him to service, said of another man who had been vociferously bemoaning exile, "Tell that man to go see Dean Acheson and learn how to retire like a gentleman." Others have suggested that Dean Acheson is one of the last of his breed in the government...