Word: gentlemanly
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...First three after deducting commissions: TIME Inc., whose gross in 1952 was $156 million; Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Holiday, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), an estimated $140 million; Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's), $68 million...
Having next revised his name (dropping "Abbot" as gloomy and substituting his mother's name McNeill), he went to work on his character. He decided to be a West Point-trained officer & gentleman, and though his difficulties with chemistry brought his military career to a sudden halt, he kept what he regarded as his military manners to the end. Moreover, he held that the rudeness of Englishmen (amongst whom he spent most of his life) was in no way a result of his rudeness to them but simply a consequence of their not having had the advantage...
...left her dressing room, a wrestling representative of the opposite sex confronted me. I recognized him as Buz Orio, a large, squat gentleman who had previously concluded a bout with another large, squat gentleman known professionally as the Demon...
...feels that this honor should go to Pope Pius XII as the "Vicar of Christ on earth . . ." No Protestant will admit that the Pope is infallible, or that he is envoy of the Lord on earth. Such assumption is incorrect, because the Pope is a simple, human gentleman of great culture, elected to his office by other mere mortals-many less than it takes to elect a President of the U.S. It is well for his church that he is not subjected to the abuse of a U.S. President. If he were, he would rejoice that he could be replaced...
...combat. At 16, he was working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles. At 21, he stood 6 ft. 1½ in., weighed 212 Ibs., could high-jump 6 ft. and run 100 yds. in eleven seconds. He could hit like a jackhammer and, in the words of Gentleman Jim Corbett, "couldn't be hurt with an ax." In 1899, when he was 24, he knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons in a fight at Coney Island and was the heavyweight champion of the world...