Word: gentlemanly
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...rugged, yet had gentleman-type behavior,” Walsh said. “He was receptive when we said, ‘Josh, this is what you gotta do.’ A lot of kids can’t do that...
...Charles Darwin: The Power of Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire to be left alone to lead the life of a country gentleman, Darwin was a shrewd self-promoter, vigorously publicizing his work even in the depths of a long illness that Browne suggests may have been brought on in part by his tireless labors...A richly detailed, vivid, and definitive portrait with not a word wasted: the best life of Charles Darwin...
With his slight build, shock of gray hair, spectacles and bow ties, the 75-year-old who will deliver this year’s Commencement address looks more like a gentleman than a ruffian...
...scandals. Since many of the victims are teenage boys, the thinking goes, the perpetrators must be gay--and that must be the problem, not sexual repression, not leaders who ignore serious criminal allegations. And having reached that conclusion, certain officials are going one step further: they are breaking a gentleman's agreement that has long existed within the church by calling into question the validity of even celibate gay priests. Said Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua of Philadelphia: "We feel that a person who is homosexually oriented is not a suitable candidate for the priesthood, even if he has never committed...
...most remarkable murder was perpetrated in the following manner, by a journeyman barber…who had been for a long time jealous of his wife. A young gentleman by chance coming into his master’s shop to be shaved…mentioned his having seen a fine girl home to Hamilton street, from whom he had certain favours the night before…the barber, concluding it to be his wife, in the height of his frenzy cut the gentleman’s throat from ear to ear and absconded...