Word: gentlemanly
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Prospects that the proctors would not break the "the gentleman's agreement," and also come storming onto Prospect Street at the President's bidding seem slight...
...auditorium of the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., one night last week, a tall, courtly gentleman of 63 rose to address an assembly of parents and masters. What he had to say came as a shock: after 29 years, Headmaster George Van Santvoord announced that he is retiring...
...belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
...such a picture. Oscar Brodney's scenes are fast and well-organized, Rudolph (Dodsworth) Mate's direction is firm and businesslike. Best bit is are working of a famed Charles Laughton scene in Henry VIII, a demonstration of medieval good manners ("the little things that distinguish the gentleman''; in which Actor Torin Thatcher daintily raises a whole haunch of mutton to his lips, graciously gnaws at it for awhile, then flings it airily over his shoulder-the left shoulder, that is-to the floor...
...either candidate as angry as he sounded? Probably not. The spirit of professional wrestling seemed to have entered New York politics. Gentleman Ives and Gentleman Harriman were grimacing as if they feared Hatpin Mary would jab them if they relaxed...