Word: gentlemanly
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...Turks," Churchill had a handful of lesser, though worthy, plums. The best: John Selwyn Lloyd, 47, a World War II brigadier who won the U.S. Legion of Merit, was made right bower to Anthony Eden with the title "Minister of State, Foreign Office." The most talked about young Tory, gentleman-farmer David Eccles, 47, after waiting nervously for a week while 32 other jobs were filled, was made Minister of Works...
...Commons, though the place officially belongs to him. Whenever the King's Messenger arrives at the House, frockcoated and gaitered, to deliver some official piece of news, the oak door is slammed in his face, and the cry "Black Rod! Black Rod!" goes bawling down the lobbies. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod thereupon knocks thrice upon the door with his wand of office, and is then admitted, bowing to the Speaker and members on both sides as he approaches the Bar. M.P.s dearly love to show off the worn spots on the door where Black...
...playing ball in the city: "The annoyance has become absolutely intolerable . . . and ought to be put an end to without delay." A generation later, a teamster who had struck it rich in Nevada passed a verdict on U.S. culture: "Ther arn't no chance for a gentleman to spend his coin in this country, an' so me an' Mrs. Bowers is goin' ter Yoorup...
This feeling springs from the fact that all written exams, tests and written recitations are conducted under the Honor system. The student writes on the front of every exam he takes: "I pledge my honor as a gentleman that during this examination I have neither given nor received assistance." He can take the exam to his room, go out in the middle of it for a beer, or talk to any of his friends. As long as he signs the pledge he is not monitored...
...Like the gentleman she fundamentally was, Sarah kept her promise, and with no explanations to anybody. Bendrix could only believe that she was tired of him, and had taken another lover. He began to hate her and torture himself with jealous fantasies. When her husband became suspicious of her odd behavior, and ironically turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch...