Word: gentlemanly
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...appointment of Dr. Oppenheimer to give the William James lectures. Dr. Oppenheimer is a confessed liar; he has admitted that he told a whole tissue of lies in a field in which the lives and safety of us all were concerned. He has violated the code of the gentleman and of the truth-seeking scholar. He has not repented. His ethical perceptions are not sensitive. He does not recognize the enormity of the thing that he did. The University has violated sound principles in giving him the cloak of its prestige. Robert H. Montgomery, LL.B...
...Astonishing Picture." Sargent was born rich, the son of a Philadelphia expatriate in Europe, into a wondrously complacent world where no gentleman ever had to make his own bed. Traipsing from capital to capital with his parents and sisters, he grew into a sophisticated young man with a high collar beneath his full beard. He developed only one passion: painting, of the sort practiced long before by Frans Hals and Velasquez...
...opening of this week's show they were cleaned and given fluorescent lighting, which would have pleased the portly old gentleman's heart. Doubtless he would have been less pleased to see his exhibition tricked out with an array of turn-of-the-century props. Museum Director Perry Rathbone had raided Boston attics for polar bear pelts, potted palms and king-size bric-a-brac to give the show a period flavor...
Turning out for a National Basketball Association doubleheader in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, baseball's great ex-Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 41, onetime New York Yankee now turned gentleman of leisure, and his husky son Joe Jr., 14, watched stoically as the Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers (in to 104). They also kept poker faces while last season's champions, the Syracuse Nationals, hooped in a 98-to-91 victory over the butterfingered New York Knickerbockers...
Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, tried to rescue the President of the Confederacy from the sour apple tree from which he has been so long suspended. In the first volume (another to come), Davis seemed to be treated with exaggerated sympathy, but the portrait of a young Southern gentleman came from intimate sources and was long overdue...