Word: gentlemanly
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...cleverly-drawn gentleman relaxes and toys with a jack-in-the-box on the cover of the April Advocate. Perhaps his lethargy indicates the new season upon us, but more likely it is a result of having read the poetry in the issue he introduces...
...wagon and next he is working on an important case ... He doesn't personify the L.A.P.D.'s homicide detective, Le Roy Sanderson, who could, in court, recite from memory . . . lengthy conversations that he had had with suspects, or Loren Miles, who was a quiet, pleasant, affable gentleman . . . who killed 17 men and one woman during his police career...
TIME Researcher Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Fremd walked up to the huge new ship still abuilding at the Newport News shipyards. At her side as they approached the superliner United States was a sturdy gentleman in a blue suit. A guard stopped them: no women allowed on board. "Oh, that's all right," blandly quipped Miss Fremd's escort. "She's my wife." The guard looked puzzled: "And who are you?" "I," said the gentleman, "am the captain of this ship...
...predecessor at the Treasury, pricks him with the barbed wish that some day he may hear a Butler speech which does not talk about "unity, stability, flexibility, and all the other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler retorts, "to which the Right Honorable Gentleman and his friends attach little importance." And a rare smile lights Rab's wintry face, as chill and fleeting as breath seen on a cold morning. It is a maxim of Butler's-and he does nothing politically which is unstudied-that charity to the enemy is profitable...
...Britain, bonnie Prince Charles, 5, without half trying, won the nod from the trade journal Tailor and Cutter as the world's best-dressed gentleman...