Word: gentlemanly
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...copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry letters to the editor, with all the vehemence the unseen correspondents would have wanted. He loved concocting wild physical bits, which got their fizz from the sight of this urbane, bespectacled, Brooks Brothers gentleman jammed into a pair of tights on a trapeze or dunked in a vat of Jell-O. "Can you imagine what people just tuning in now are thinking?" he liked to say when the chaos was at its height. That was the point...
...through strip joint was so funny if it was in his neighborhood [STEVE LOPEZ'S AMERICA, Oct. 2]! There are already two nude dance clubs in Salem Township. How many do you need in a community of 7,500 people? I can't believe the owner of the Climax Gentleman's Club believes he is in the "entertainment business." P.T. Barnum would turn over in his grave to have his name mentioned in connection with this article. LINDA FREY Apollo...
...have thus far eluded most Americans. But you are a young nation, and I'm sure that as you continue to master the simple art of slugging an oversize ball as far as you can; eventually you will hunger for the more sophisticated skills and erudite nuances of a Gentleman's sport. A game that blends the cerebral with the athletic. A fusion of brain with the brawn you have already mastered...
...troops. Later he was critical of Henry Kissinger's secretive attempts to disentangle America from the war. "Everyone in the State Department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Kissinger said after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest...
There is only one known written account of the event, which came to light many years later, in 1946. It is a letter from "a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Charleston, dated October 20, 1792" (as noted by the Charleston, S.C., City Gazette & Daily Advertiser), that describes "the first stone" being laid "in the southwest corner of the president's house...