Word: statesmanly
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...phrase "high-class flophouses," which you attribute to me, has never crossed my lips. It comes from the colorful vocabulary of the charming young reporter on the Austin Statesman who interviewed me before my lecture at the University of Texas...
Servan-Schreiber, pointing with pride to "the exceptional nature of a meeting on the political plane between Pierre Mendés-France, liberal statesman; François Mauriac, inspiration of the Christian left, and André Malraux, the revolutionary guide who renounced nothing which united him with De Gaulle," concluded: "Here are the men from whom the rising generation can draw reasons for ... believing again in the virtues of political action...
...relatively modest tribute to Argentina's strong man. Among the extravagant titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman's No. 1 sport. He often takes a spin on the grounds of his suburban estate...
...moving in, pushing back into history the last remnants of irreverent, aristocratic Whiggery, pushing forward the businessman. In faith, in morals, in background, in purse, the young Gladstone seemed every inch a new Victorian. How, then, did he become the most hated as well as the most adored English statesman of his century...
...Selfish Rich. It happened, says Author Philip Magnus, in what is undoubtedly the best biography of Gladstone ever written, because Gladstone was the first British statesman to act upon the belief that God especially loved the common man. Gladstone felt that the rich were inclined to be "selfish," and this feeling was confirmed by various proofs...