Word: gentlemanly
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After a few hours at one of these taverns, a sailor might feel the need to be tattoed. He won't have to go far, since there are five late-working jab artists within easy walking distance. The best of these, a rotund gentleman named Frank W. Liberty, claims to have had the honor of applying pigment to the undergraduate arm of one of the Roosevelt boys; he doesn't know which...
...Maurice Tobin, McCarthy had magnanimous indulgence: "A fine young gentleman* who was ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them...
...William Cowper's kindly beckoning, the readers of two centuries have lulled away many a peaceful evening-cheered, but never inebriated-at the mild brew of his poetry. Cowper (rhymes with hooper) is remembered fondly as a plump old country gentleman in a billowy cap; apt to giggle, but otherwise of a most pleasing conversation; delighted with his bed of pinks, devoted to his hares; the least pretentious and the most lovable of England's 18th Century poets...
...morning . . . a most important gentleman came to our front door carrying a huge big box from Queen Victoria . . . There was a letter on top written in gold ink . . . He was all dressed in a beautiful uniform of red, and had on a blue hat with a white feather. When Mamsie hurried to open the big box she found it was all lined with red, white and blue cotton wool, and there in the very middle...
...seems to see eye-to-eye with Dizzy on a great many matters of principle. He is strongly opposed, for one thing, to compulsory education beyond the three R's. For another, he is able to write of William Ewart Gladstone as venomously as if that formidable old gentleman were still active in politics. In short, if Pearson is not quite the best man to write a cool, critical study of Dizzy, he is admirably equipped to write a sympathetic, and enthusiastic...