Word: gentlemanly
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...increase the number of enforcement officers to make rationing work? demanded Laborite M.P. Norman Dodds. "I am satisfied," replied Lloyd George, "that if the Hon. Gentleman had his way, there would be more enforcement officers than hens...
...elderly gentleman with the erect military bearing who strides through the Athens suburb of Ekali on fine mornings is the new Premier of Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. An Alsatian dog, Fritz, trots by his side, but gone are the two carloads of soldiers who accompanied him everywhere when he was leading the fight against the Communist guerrillas three years...
...admirers in the corps invariably refer to him as a "real, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman." The phrase is trite but true-it is easy to visualize him in the grey of the Confederacy. With his quiet, tidewater accent, he has little of the flamboyancy of such barnacled Marines as Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, and Graves ("The Big E") Erskine...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...
...minutes later a repairman came to the rescue and led the gentleman, one of Japan's foremost educators, to his destination, 28 Massachusetts Hall. Murmuring that he had been "misguided," the professor was met by a secretary who handed him a list of appointments. A Crimson Key man was there to see that he didn't wander into any more basements during his brief visit to Harvard...