Word: gentlemanly
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...party behind the Superintendent's Quarters, the President accepted the class of 1955 edition of Howitzer, the academy's yearbook. Forty years before to the week, almost to the day, graduating Cadet Eisenhower had read of himself in Howitzer: "This is Señor Dwight David Eisenhower, gentleman . . . who claims to have the best authority for the statement that he is the handsomest man in the Corps . . . At any rate, you'll have to give it to him that he is well developed abdominally. In common with most fat men, he is an enthusiastic and sonorous devotee...
...vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving 3½ years, retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited...
...stiff word of warning: "The Class of 1930 are now students of Harvard University. Until they prove themselves to the contrary they so remain. And there are certain definite duties of the student at Harvard, invested as he is with the freedom of Harvard. He must be a gentleman. A gentleman respects tradition. And the traditions of Harvard are quiet traditions...
...translation, or the original. The performances seemed to be uniformly well-handled and the language clear, yet if the actors understood the final meaning of the play they were not totally successful in transmitting it to the audience. Colgate Salsbury as Don Perlimplin was fine as an elderly gentleman who marries in confusion and falls in love with his wife after she has betrayed him, but his subsequent transformation to cleverness and understanding is a surprise in the light of the earlier characterization. Miss Fuchs appeared again as Marcolfa, the servant, and did her usual good job. Mary Anne Goldsmith...
...Manager Leo Durocher, a man devoted to the argument that the big leagues are no place for nice guys. Said Peewee: "Alston is easy to get along with. I don't know whether he knows how to hold his fork, but believe me, he's a real gentleman...