Word: gentlemen
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Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...
...third time in 21 years Peiping's citizens last week prepared to receive an approaching conqueror. At first their preparations were scarcely perceptible. Skaters still weaved across Nan Hai Lake, near the Forbidden City. In the adjoining park, old gentlemen taking their caged songsters for an airing paused to compare birds. The lovely city (its name means "Northern Peace") expected, even looked forward to a quick, peaceful turnover...
...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...
Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...
Next Tuesday, when most students will be at home, the on-and-off varsity will run up against probably the top hockey team in the East-McGill University. When the skating gentlemen from Montreal come down to Boston, they will bring real speed, real finesse, and the best teamwork that Harvard will see this year. Coach Chase has a lot of work to do if he expects a decent showing against the fancy Frenchmen from the north country...