Word: gentlemanly
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...McCarthyism" is not going to be stopped by Truman speeches or by the witch-hunting of witch-hunters, or by proving that McCarthy is a slippery character and no gentleman. "McCarthyism" is going to be around until Harry Truman, the President of the U.S., eliminates from U.S. foreign policy the tendency to appease Communism. This tendency is the red afterglow of Communists in & around the Government. It keeps "McCarthyism" bright & shining...
George Washington also turned up in the art news again-this time as a rather foxy-faced gentleman in a braided blue jacket. A picture portraying him in such fashion, long mistitled A Naval Officer, now hangs in Sulgrave Manor, ancestral Northamptonshire home of the Washington family...
...heart's not great," wrote a poetical one of their number, "that fears a little rope." On the last ride, the condemned highwayman cracked wise to his friends in the crowds that lined the way, and following a custom established by an early gentleman of the road on his way to the gallows...
...means tolerant of other kinds of misconduct. Before his marriage, he carefully entered in his account books 50? expenditures for "Sensuality" and "Sensual Pleasure"; afterward, such entries stop. As a respectable father (ten children), he was roused by the rascalities of a French wencher, hoped that "Some Gentleman would only Cetch the Low minded Dog and Cow hyde him well." Sadly he reports: "A Mr. - was caught in bed with Mr. Parkers old Big Black woman Buster and a Mr. - was Caught in bed with old Lucy Brustie, Hard times indeed, when Such things Ocur...
...been going on at the Academy for years among men who have since served in Korea, where some of them have died in battle. Academy officials replied starchily that once a West Pointer graduates and is commissioned, he starts with a clean slate, is considered "an officer and a gentleman." But if such cheating had gone on before, unchecked and unpunished, the 90 were being sharply punished, while others, equally guilty, went free. The cadets also angrily insisted that scores more of their classmates had cribbed, denied it and escaped punishment...