Word: gentlemenly
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...Gentlemen, gentlemen," exclaims another, "let us return the athletics to the athletes. The Olympics cannot persist with such a fusion of the body physical and the body political...
...same time, investment banking is losing its old, genteel overtones of Ivy League colleges and gentlemen's social clubs. Companies have got more fickle and change bankers with greater frequency. Says Felix Rohatyn of Lazard Freres, who built his reputation as a deal-maker during the 1960s: "Relationships are no longer as important as individual transactions. There is simply not the amount of long-term trust between clients and their investment bankers that there once...
More than a tale of attitudes and events, however, the movie is also the tale of individuals: of the elderly professorial gentlemen who finds romance, of the neurotic, domineering female who forcibly selects her partners, and of the homely, near-sighted spinster who reads gossip magazines while waiting in vain to be propositioned. What happens between events in this film is often more intriguing than the action itself...
Second it is about the South. Everybody, including the bare-chested old gentlemen who are my neighbors, is tan. In the rental car on the way to Vero Beach an announcer comes on the radio: "Bob Johnson's Ford is now a great deal for you With any truck purchased next week you get a free 306 Winchester rifle and a gun rack to put in your pickup...
...reply: "Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course...