Word: gentlemanly
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...matter how good a reporter he proved himself, Gage could never resolve his propagandist's dilemma. When Spaniards got rich, they were rapacious, but when Sir Francis Drake did a little piracy, it was a "noble and gallant gentleman." So it went with one of Gage's great expose stories of Mexico. As he tells it, a "mighty and rich gentleman of Mexico" named Don Pedro Mejia joined with a viceroy to monopolize all the Indian maize and wheat in the country. The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop...
...Dabbs finds much to praise and does so with a refreshing absence of Southern rhetoric. He loves the South's piety toward the land ("Foot by foot, we have fought across it"), its sense of the past, its respect for manners, its familistic loyalties. He shares the Southern gentleman's strong sense of place. Through his own plantation windows at Mayesville, S.C., Author Dabbs looks "down the avenue along which I hurried as a boy and down which I have seen my children and grandchildren walking with their dogs running beside them." Dabbs admits to being honestly "confused...
...Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...
...Gentleman Magazine...
...Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer and do it," or "let's get our tails over the dashboard on this thing." His Navy nickname is "Gentleman Jim." His press nickname is "Lord Jim." His private Navy nickname is "Lord Plushbottom...