Word: gentlemanly
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...puzzling things about this white face when it appeared-none of us knew exactly how to pronounce the name. But just before I came up here. I got a very cultivated 'gentleman and I said, 'How do you pronounce this name correctly?' And he said to say Hairaford . . . But I have learned from your president that it's Herferd, and now I feel natural...
...time when theological disagreement was equated with political revolution, a contentious English gentleman named John Lilburne was brought before King Charles I's Star Chamber, accused of circulating Puritan writings. The Star Chamber, originally a reputable judicial council, had become a fierce and single-minded tribunal, given to extracting confessions by torture. Lilburne refused to take the chamber's normal oath of testimony, on the ground that no man was bound to incriminate himself. Although he was whipped, fined and jailed, his stand made him a popular hero...
...gentleman friend of mine who works for your paper, hasn't been around to see me much lately. Each time I track him down, his sleepy eyes and unshaven jewls tell me better than any words could that he just isn't taking care of himself. He keeps saying that he's in some sort of back-biting contest . . . . he calls it EXECCOMP, which I suppose is a letter abbreviation like UNRRA or CIO or something...
Coach Hal Lahar, a pleasant gentleman who guides the fortunes of the Colgate University football team, has faced a particularly difficult problem in his two years as head coach at Hamilton...
...waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman appears and enters the lists (and the hut) with the lady...