Word: gentlemanly
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Leibowitz: "Bring him back and have the gentleman sit down on the stand, by order of the court. I will chain you to the stand with handcuffs. You cannot thwart the dignity of the court in that fashion . . . Your silence will be deemed a refusal to answer and the court finds you guilty of contempt...
...mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent marines vowed that he was really 200 years...
After seven months of wandering over Europe, half unfinished, the new Juan Miro mural arrived at the Grad Center dining halls last month. Afficionados, as the gentleman above, were delighted; others, dismayed...
Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
...character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshman 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 relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his service." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds: "laying aside my solitaire for a moment...