Word: gentlemanly
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...sprawled about in China. That is and has always been our basic policy." He had been among the first to suggest diplomatic recognition of Communist China, Churchill recalled. But ". . . if you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like them. We all, for instance, recognize the right honorable gentleman, the member for Ebbw Vale...
With 7,863 men, "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne planned to drive straight from Lake Champlain to Albany. There he would link up with two more armies; Sir William Howe's, moving north from New York, and Colonel Barry St. Leger's, sweeping east across the Mohawk Valley. The three-pronged attack aimed to crush the rebellion by separating New England from the other colonies...
...found ample material for jokes in such things as French opera and royalty, nuns and pubs, Italian comedy and conversazione. Then, when he seemed to be becoming quite a man of the world, Walpole was rude to him. Gray packed his bag and went home to Cambridge, a gentleman scholar living on a modest inheritance...
...think your article overlooked the very pronounced pro-Taft sentiment here in the Deep South . . . We know what we have in Taft; he's an intellectual and a gentleman. General Eisenhower may have glamour-but we had enough of that in the days of F.D.R...
...United States. We have our typical British way of resolving problems of taste . . . We are a much more mature and sophisticated people." Labor's Herbert Morrison interrupted to taunt: "That sounds like anti-Americanism." With feigned astonishment, Fyfe replied: "I am very surprised that the right honorable gentleman should take me to task for paying a compliment to our fellow citizens...