Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...built Berkshire Hathaway into the most successful investment vehicle in history. That would be enough if he weren't also the repository of all that is honest and wise in finance, someone who should be exhibit A in all the white collar prosecutions under way. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, despite the protestations of the defendant that he didn't know that what he did was wrong, we present you with Warren Buffett, who made fortunes without cutting a single corner, without being greedy and without a whiff of scandal...
...that, ladies and gentlemen, is the great lesson behind the Crimson’s 2003-2004 season, an odyssey of extremes six months and counting...
...Prove that chivalry isn’t dead: Gentlemen, hold the door open for the girl behind you. Ladies, say thank-you but hold the next one open for him. And if you live in a swipe card-based locality, don’t let the door slam when someone from your dorm is approaching: like in a rear-view mirror, objects are closer than they appear. You can afford to wait, and they’ll most likely return the favor...