Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the second of the day's two conference sessions ran past 8 o'clock, he begged off attending a black-tie dinner given by NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak. Rumors that the President was ill promptly swept through the press corps. Grinned Ike: "Tell those gentlemen I am a 9:30 or 10 o'clock boy tonight...
Dame Edith believes that eccentricity is particularly British chiefly for two reasons: 1) "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark of the British nation," 2) "all great gentlemen are eccentric [because] their gestures are not born to fit the conventions or the cowardice of the crowd." Cynical sociologists might remark that it is not gentlemanliness that makes for eccentricity so much as having lots of money with which to buy absolute liberty. Among the scores of eccentrics cited, a great many were born with silver spoons in their mouths and golden bees in their bonnets...
...James Graham pleased Londoners in the 1780s by opening a "Hymeneal Temple." Centerpiece of this edifice was the "Celestial Bed," over which "presided" a pretty young healer named Miss Emma Lyons. Gentlemen who found the "Celestial Bed" (fee: ?100 per night) somewhat fatiguing could retreat to another bed to be refreshed with charges of "Magneto-Electric" virility (fee: ?50 per night). Dr. Graham soon abdicated from his "Electrical Throne," but Emma Lyons married Sir William Hamilton and, in due course, became the historic sharer of the celestial bed of Admiral Lord Nelson...
...defense of Europe. A few months ago in Italy Norstad moved an audience to tears by declaring: "There are few sights more beautiful than a flag in the wind. When I look at the flags of the 15 nations that constitute NATO, I would say, ladies and gentlemen, that you are looking at the hopes of the Western world." Last week, as a consequence of a Norstad visit to Brussels, and The Hague a few days earlier, The Netherlands and Belgium agreed on a plan for close cooperation between their air forces, within the NATO framework...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...