Word: gentlemanly
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Voting against the protectionists this time was none other than Arch-Protectionist Dan Reed, who had explained earlier: "Last year, when I had a desperate fight on tax revision and other legislation, the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Jere Cooper] was in the minority. I asked him to cooperate with me for a tight rule to get the legislation through. He did it. I told him I would-" Reed came to the hated word, then plunged ahead, "-reciprocate." Reed kept his promise, even though it cost him dearly. His was the deciding vote...
...people" who had paid her homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy, the late Democratic Speaker (1936-40) William B. Bankhead. After pecking each gentleman smudgily on the cheek, she primly explained: "I can't compromise them. They're both bachelors...
...century minx had some shockers up her sleeve ("Her upper garment sometimes falls ... to show her naked shoulders, and as if she would not be seen, she covers that in all haste which voluntarily she showed"), he has no light to shed on what was up the gentleman's. Courting, "in the modern sense," did not exist until the 12th century, when the troubadours discovered the art of "rewriting ancient tales in a new romantic idiom, with as little conscience as a team of film scriptwriters falsifying the Old Testament." Since then, courting has passed-tfirough many phases...
...Twelfth-century Dorothy Diggs advised businessmen not to court ladies by boasting of "military prowess." If they did, the ladies would "point out that soldiers' calves are slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly...
Back in the Gold Coast days, when tutoring schools around the Square offered packaged educations and guaranteed Harvard diplomas, College students could spend much of their time in New York or Bermuda and still pick up their "gentleman...