Word: gentlemanly
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...else at the White House got a vicuña coat? Adams: "Well, now, let's get the thing on the record. My superior officer at the White House never received a coat from this gentleman." (But Press Secretary Jim Hagerty stated that Ike did receive some vicuña cloth from Goldfine in 1956, gave it to a friend...
Citation: "A most upright and conscientious gentleman, one in whom, as the orator Cicero said of another, there appears the embodiment of culture, of gentle wit, of amiability and of charm." Harvard University Hans Bethe, physicist . Sc.D...
...emphasize 'the battle of the sexes'-always pitting men against women. I think the only important thing is for each person to live up to his own potential." Her advice to women who want a career and a happy home life too: "Find a very understanding gentleman to marry...
There is also a central difference between the Beats and the Angries. Where the hipster is asocial-society's Underground Man-the Angry Young Man is eager to belong, feeling as he does that the welfare state has given him the credentials of a gentleman without the cash to be one. George Scott, a young Tory by conversion, puts this plaint best in a section of his autobiography Time and Place: "And so here we are, with our degrees and our posh education, our prideful positions in the public service, our ambitious names in print, trying...
...Nichols-May dialogue is steeped in hilarious vocal nuance. Both have fine ears for inflections of speech, an unerring instinct for the telling mannerisms, whether of a Chicago sharpie, a Virginia gentleman, or a Brooklyn butcher. Their most extraordinary act is to ask an audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian...