Word: gentlemenly
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Restic, however, was subdued. He sighed, scratched his forehead and said, "Well, gentlemen, it was a long time coming...
...Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Stimson had declared that "gentlemen do not read each other's mail." But Donovan persuaded F.D.R. that such etiquette need not apply in dealings with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and thus the U.S.'s first independent intelligence agency was born...
...Israeli settlements would be a part of Israel. The Arab villages and towns could decide the nature of their relations with Jordan and with Israel. We would tell them: ''Gentlemen, do you want our health department, our doctors to help you? If not, that's fine, we have enough patients of our own. And do you want the experts from our Ministry of Agriculture to teach...
...poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly reports to Burger on what newsmen covering the court are saying about...
...Diana Trilling had her way, we would all behave like ladies and gentlemen. Rehearsals and practices would end at the dinner hour. We would eat together, make polite conversation, and retire for coffee in the common room...