Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stepping deftly from the example of Jefferson--who responded to this libel by sending one of the learned French gentlemen a stuffed black panther and a live moose--to the more general case, Commager suggested some of the effects of the fray for American history...
...Dean Watson claims that Harvard men know not to steal when they come here," Morrill said. "He says that Harvard is filled with perfect gentlemen." "I think he's presuming a bit; everybody has the propensity to steal, and Harvard has its share of crooks who should be dealt with...
...letter sound like anything else. After studying Yale's affiliation proposal (TIME, Dec. 30, 1966) for nearly a year, Vassar's trustees last week declined marriage, preferring to remain, as they put it, "mistress in our own house." Moaned the New Haven campus daily: "Yale's gentlemen suitors have been jilted. All we can do is take it like men." President Kingman Brewster Jr., sounded manful enough when he noted tersely that the decision was a "disappointment...
...company of mink-stoled ladies and tuxedoed gentlemen enter a mansion, regale themselves at supper, and retire to the sitting room. They're still in it a few days later. The door is open, no monsters lurk nearby, but half-crazed voices keep repeating--We can't escape! Before they do, two lovers commit suicide in a closet and everybody alternates between morphine peace and nightmares. The characters choose hell over free exit...
...side. He goes to the theater in London occasionally, but has never been seen at a nightclub and, aside from sneaking a cherry brandy as a schoolboy, is known to drink nothing stiffer than an occasional sip of champagne. He does not smoke. He is good at gentlemen's sports-polo, shooting, sailing-but does not have any interest in such traditional British team sports as rugby and cricket...