Word: gentlemanly
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...property owner and his neighbors, that the Grosse Pointe Property Owners Association (973 families) and local real estate brokers had set up a rigid system for screening families who want to buy or build homes in Grosse Pointe. Unlike similar communities, where neighborhood solidarity is based on an unwritten gentleman's agreement, Grosse Pointe's screening system is based on a "written questionnaire, filled out by a private investigator on behalf of Grosse Pointe's "owner-vigilantes...
...Kansas before World War I, it was presented against a backdrop showing a dairy instead of a cigarette factory?and Carmen herself walked onstage carrying a milk pail. Not until after Bryn Mawr lifted its smoking ban in 1925 and Chesterfield began luring women smokers (with ads showing a gentleman lighting up, and a woman coaxing, "Blow some my way") did many women dare to smoke even in their own homes...
...through his first week in Hanners' class. Inexplicably, he perked up the second week, began drawing cartoons with facility and underwent a drastic change of personality. An incredulous parole officer told Hanners: "I don't see how you did it, but you've made a little gentleman...
...summers later, in a resort near Cannes, Simone met Montand. Defying gossip, the pair promptly set out for Paris. Long after her divorce from Allegret, Simone admitted, "I still have the feeling that I'm living somewhat illegally with the gentleman for whom I left my husband...
Night after night she would eat her supper on a tray, alone by the fire. But once the children were up next morning, the loneliness vanished. No boy could ever be more splendid than her "young gentleman," and no girl more dainty than her "young lady." Her children did not bite nails, climb trees or throw naughty tantrums. If they did, there could be a paddy whack on the "sit-upon." But when sickness fell, it was nanny who sat by the bedside all night. In 1946, when the famed Alah died after being nanny to the Queen Mother...