Word: gentlemenâ
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...reason for their locutions is as simple as the speakers: minor-league jocks laboring in a sport that has never been noted for attracting gentlemen???professional hockey. The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts...
Suddenly came the blast of a fanfare and the cry of an announcer: "It's the Jesse Birnbaum Show! Starring Jesse Birnbaum! Tonight, Jesse's guest?Amateur Magician Dick Cavett! Ladies and Gentlemen???Jesse Birnbaum!" Applause thundered. Music swelled. Performer nauseated. Assistant stage manager shoved him onstage...
...Freaks, misfits, monstrosities. This way, ladies and gentlemen??? a special Christmas offering! The best selection of 'cases,' hand-picked by charity experts and described by literary artists. Nothing covered up. Come right in and see them squirm. Hear them howl. Buy a front seat and get your name in the paper; buy a box and get your picture in the paper, maybe on the front page...
...Crimson (undergraduate daily) approved the new regulations in this curious backhand fashion: "The function of the University is to produce gentlemen???in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...
...immediately wrote to the editor stating that I had lived in the West for 38 years and had heard the expression hundreds of times, and that the proper plural is "Tenderfeet." To be sure I submitted the matter to a dinner club of 25 gentlemen??? lawyers, doctors, professors, bankers and businessmen?who had all lived in the West ten to twenty years or more. They were all familiar with the use of the word "tenderfoot" to designate some one newly arrived and green to the ways of the West, and they were all agreed that "tenderfeet" was the only plural...
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