Word: gentlemanly
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...justly proud of his cool, poised platform manner. He chaired meetings with a splendid mixture of dignity, trickery and bogus erudition. Once he presided over a Sunday evening meeting when an opposition member asked for an Australian (i.e., secret) ballot. Recalls Curley: "I pounded my gavel. 'The gentleman.' I said, 'is out of order. It may interest him to know that they don't vote on Sundays in Australia...
...great swarming hive of India, sat the ancient Mohammedan King of Delhi, a company pensioner, who suddenly found himself the unwilling leader of what today might be called a national war of liberation. As the mutineers in their elaborate British uniforms streamed into his city, all the pious old gentleman could do was to ask them not to loot too much (most of the British in Delhi were massacred in the first few days succeeding the mutiny) and consult the entrails of a goat in the hope of a suitable augury...
...want to get emotionally involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters...
...gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood of scholarly repose. On the painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan...
...First Gentleman, also known as the Prince Regent and George IV of England, is shown chiefly as a father in Norman Ginsbury's period piece. For two acts the rakish, selfish, stylish Regent insists that Princess Charlotte marry the Prince of Orange, before giving her the Prince Leopold she loves. There are gaudy family scenes-the best one between an unhappy, runaway Charlotte and her unhappier, cast-aside mother-preceding Charlotte's death in childbed...