Word: gentlemanly
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...thought any faults in the system out weighed its good points. Typical was the comment, "I am tempted to check the first category, for the system is a rather essential aspect of the fundamental assumption at Princeton that the student is a gentleman' and is entitled to be trusted as such...
...some graduates were doubtful, others were outspoken in their disbelief that an honor system could be effective here. One man spoke of progress: "In the evolutionary scheme of undergraduate bodies, the Princeton gentleman represents the most highly-developed species of gentlemanly characteristics; Harvardians are still at a more rudimentary level of development...
...shaped heads, Detective Dick Tracy has had an invaluable mechanical ally: "The two-way wrist radio." Its secret communicating power, unknown to the bad men, constantly helps bail Tracy and his friends out of trouble. In the current installment, for instance, it may prove very useful to a wealthy gentleman named Uncle Kincaid Plenty. Locked up in a TNT plastic vest with a time-bomb mechanism, Uncle Kincaid is being taken for a ride by a knife-wielding criminal named 3-D Magee. But the sounds coming over Kincaid's open wrist radio, hidden under his sleeve, have just...
Mexicans are tolerant of amor, and few higher compliments can be paid a gentleman than to call him "very manly." But Alemán and his pals got going so fast in their dizzy ride that the elder statesmen of the party decided things were getting out of hand. In Mexican politics, such former Presidents as Manuel Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alem...
...wonder that a lot of people were surprised recently to read in the "In Memoriam" columns of the august London Times this notice: "At Battle Bosworth August 22, 1485, there fell, fighting bravely, Richard III of England. King. Statesman. Soldier. Gentleman. Deeply mourned. 'From distant shores, pale dusty ghost. One grain of sand salutes your memory...