Word: gentlemanly
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...post's commanding officer. But in some cases, he is too busy to see you, and you call on the unit commander. Check with the adjutant; he always knows everything. Leave your calling cards on this visit. You leave one card (because a lady never calls on a gentleman), and your husband leaves two (he calls on both husband and wife). If the commander is a bachelor, a lady doesn't call...
...long while. Coming aboard the imaginary La Douce as an officer, Gaston is welcomed by his kinsman, and performs such deeds of valor in combat with the Spaniards as would shame a Walter Mitty. Far from being a coward, Captain Eugéne is a great commander and gentleman. In a fine, frenzied finale, the English warship is indeed met and run from, but for reasons that give both Gaston and the reader plenty of chance for reflection about the various nature of honor and man's view of her. Moral: black and white are the most deceiving colors...
Ulen, on his part, does not know of a finer man than Brooks. "He's no hot-shot rah-rah guy--he's a solid, patient, teaching coach. There isn't a better man to take over this varsity when the retirement rules get me. Bill's a gentleman, and he knows hs onions...
...book all afternoon so as to be sure of having it later on. There is no need of explaining why such practices as these are disgraceful. Inasmuch, however, as some students are not acute enough to see it, it is well to explain to then that no gentleman is carried away so far by zeal for industry as to use these methods of pursuing his studies. The Harvard CRIMSON, March...
Willis Wayde's fiber proves much tougher than the thinning Harcourt strain, and Bess would like to love him-but how can she really love this solemn youngster who reminds her of Uriah Heep? She drops him for a gentleman who plays good tennis and wears the right kind of white ducks. At that point, a chilling transformation begins in Willis. Slowly his eagerness turns to cold ambition, his good manners into a calculating weapon, his yen to be like the Harcourts into an unconscious drive to destroy them...