Word: gentlemanly
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...very scholarly gentleman," said friend and fellow alumnus Frank H. Baumgardner Jr., who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1932. Baumgardner and Chasteney were neighbors in Tucson, Ariz...
...later generation he was probably best known as the wry gentleman who every few months came calling on Johnny Carson. Stewart would uncoil himself in the Tonight Show guest seat, tell one of his hilariously laborious anecdotes, perhaps read one of the verses that, in 1989, made him a best-selling poet. One bit of doggerel elegized his pet golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare...
Gone are the days of the Harvard "gentleman...
Gifford, too, has a reputation as a gentleman. He is so devoted to third wife Kathie Lee and their two children (Cody, 7, and Cassidy, 3) that he regularly charters a plane after Monday-night games so that he can be in their Greenwich, Conn., home when they wake up Tuesday mornings. According to a story in Johnson's own words in this week's Globe, it was on a commercial flight in October 1993 that she and Gifford began a flirtatious relationship that continued over the phone. "Some people would call our talks phone sex," she writes. "But that...
...case, the student was not entitled to cakes and ale, nor should he have worn a sword because the rationales for those laws no longer applied. In other words, along with the swordwearing statute is an understood rationale: Students must wear swords because swords are essential accouterments for a gentleman and are necessary for self-defense. Since the rationales no longer hold, the argument would go, the law need not be enforced. But that's just not the way it works. No matter their justifications, laws remain laws and rights remain rights until they are repealed or amended based...