Word: gentlemanly
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...Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story that Forester correctly conceived as all-male. The Pride's real passion would far better have aimed...
Like most of the distinguished Glynne family Catherine was devoted to "Glynnese," a private language whose proper use was once demonstrated in a speech supposedly to be delivered by Gladstone in Parliament: "Sir, the Noble Lord opposite is such a phantod* and the Honourable Gentleman next to him such a daundering† and wizzy** old totterton...
Henry Treece's Carnival King was an especially unhappy choice for the Theatre on the Green's opening number by contrast with the remainder of the 1957 bill of fare, which includes Moliere's Would-be Gentleman this week and next, and later Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Shaw's Man and Superman--all of which present a delightful and heady prospect indeed...
Rising for an angry answer, Ohio's Wayne L. Hays drew applause by declaring that "there is no person in the United States . . . who is doing more to divide Negro citizens from other citizens than the gentleman from New York." Powell's letter, added Hays, almost persuaded him to support the jury-trial amendment. Dangling a foot over the side of his chair, Howard Smith smiled contentedly...
Presbyterianism is no religion for a gentleman...