Word: gentlemanly
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...election night victory party last week in Providence's Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, the crowd's attention turned suddenly from merrymaking to the grand entrance of a large, elder-statesman kind of gentleman. He was Herbert Claiborne Pell, former Ambassador to Portugal and Hungary, who had just arrived from London with his wife to see their son, Claiborne. After upsetting two veterans in the Rhode Island Democratic primary, Claiborne Pell was celebrating a 2-to-1 landslide win over his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate...
...wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White is a once and future tippler who plans to go off the wagon soon, the pubkeepers of Alderney were pulling out every bung in the Out Islands, awaiting the draught of gold from Broadway...
...headquarters window. The Globe has an ad today put in by an independent group in Spring-field that's gonna hurt him on his claim that he reduced taxes." He lowered his voice: "Besides, he's been hitting Saltonstall pretty low. A big mistake. You don't attack a gentleman like that. You know what I mean...
...Scotland for a weekend of shooting, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan comfortably reposed knock-kneed on a shooting stick while awaiting the flushing of his quarry. Macmillan, looking the soul of a gentleman hunter, was a guest on the estate of Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary. Thoroughly relaxed by his recreation, he dashed back to Britain's best-known shooting gallery, the House of Commons...
...Gogh, who is in Cambridge for a short visit and a talk on his uncle at the Fogg Museum, is a calm, white-haired gentleman who possesses the ease and charm that one associates with his father, Theo, Vincent's brother and truest friend. Since both brothers died before Mr. Van Gogh was two, he speaks of them with not only family pride, but also with appropriate scholarly detachment...