Word: gentlemanly
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...moral structure of Western society in about as casual a manner as anybody in a pretty casual century. Without batting an eyelash he sets the scene in the Greenwich Village pied-a-terre of a New York jeweler, weaves the action from the point of view of that gentleman's mistress, and as I understand it, blandly assumes throughout that there is no problem of social morality in the relationship...
...vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan, cut to the quick, jumped to his feet in protest, Macleod softly answered: "The right honorable gentleman has been a long time in this House, and I do not think he objects to this form of debating at all." Tories cheered...
...Notably Thorstein Veblen who, in 1899, wrote: "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure...
...Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder; and in Channel Firing, the dead, stirred by great noises, rise from their graves only...
City Manager John B. Atkinson reports that at a recent auction of garbage (it is sold for hog food), a gentleman bid an amount much higher than any of his competitors. When questioned about his reasons, he replied that the Harvard garbage when fed to the hogs was much more nutritious than any other...