Word: gentlemanly
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...gubernatorial candidate Christian Herter he described as a "wise, conservative gentleman and scholar. Dever is a plain front man for a bunch of thugs and robbers...
Speaking of his days at Harvard, Santayana confessed that he hated President Eliot, and loved President Lowell--"a gentleman, a man of deep understanding." But Eliot was, for Santayana, the symbol of everything he loathed; he was "The Last Puritan," the figure of stubborn, stupid morality...
...away at the Eisenhower-Taft alliance. He warned the staunch Democrats of industrial New Britain: "If the Republicans by some mischance are elected this fall, people calling the White House would have to ask which President is in today: the five-star general from Kansas or the six-star gentleman from Ohio." Later he suggested that if the Republicans won, "Ike would be in the White House, Taft in Blair House, and Dewey in the dog house...
Massachusetts Bar Association head Samuel P. Sears '17 was not so moderate in his reactions. "I was stunned when I read in the Herald that a gentleman and lawyer of Mr. Charles P. Curtis's standing had written an article in which he said "one of the functions of a lawyer is to lie for his client," Sears said...
...character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds, "laying aside my solitaire for the moment...