Word: gentlemanly
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...what of the traditional doorman archetype embedded in the collective consciousness? The Scottish or Irish gentleman, elderly, jovial to tenants, bitter when out of earshot, his brogue softened by decades spent in America...
...Celeste Holm for Falun Gong In 2002, the Academy Award-winning actress (for 1947's Gentleman's Agreement) organized a petition calling for the release from a Chinese prison of her acupuncturist, Dr. Teng Chuyan, a member of the Falun Gong spiritual group. "The only choice for a practitioner [of Falun Gong] given by the Chinese government," Holm wrote, "is between death or living-death...
...marriages have resulted from the efforts of Matchmaking Institute graduates. One date, however, did come out of the January course: Clampitt sent Biondi, the pretty, blond social worker from Detroit, for a sushi dinner with a New York lawyer. "He was a perfect gentleman," according to Biondi, who says they keep in touch. Who knows? Cupid may have found a mark...
...Their long, rich lives have taught them invaluable lessons about unfashionable things like "self-reliance, honest effort, commitment to ideals larger than themselves"--and precious little about women. "It seems to me once you share a bathroom with a woman, things get a lot less romantic," is one old gentleman's contribution. Thus demonstrating something women have known about both boys and men for a long, long time: we're completely, utterly hopeless...
...great feeling to have a guy like Sid, such a gentleman, so talented, so experienced, on our team,” Whitman said. “Sid is a goddamned...