Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling as sweetly as a high school valedictorian, Callas graciously received photographers in her dressing room, heaped verbal bouquets on her English hosts: "They behave like gentlemen to me." Even more gentlemanly were the visiting Texans; they were savoring the announcement that Callas had agreed to help out next season in the Dallas Civic Opera's Barber of Seville by taking the place of Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, who is pregnant. It was suggested...
...Time, Gentlemen. In Columbus, Ohio, burglars who had broken into the Honky Tonk Grill told a man trying to get in, "Sorry, buddy, we're closed," learned when the police picked them up that they had given the brushoff to the owner...
Gardner and Frank Sinatra dealt with the "gentlemen of the press!" It happened in Australia, but it should happen here-and more often. It is heartening then to see two people such as Ava and Frankie stand up to the arrogant reporters and photographers. When they tell them off, these two of my favorite people are, I am sure, speaking for millions...
...Ladles, Gentlemen & Scholars. Braithwaite had his own racial bitterness to overcome on that first day as he sat listening to Headmaster Alexander Florian talk of Greenslade's children. The school allowed no punishment of a child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite...
Finally Braithwaite lost his temper, tongue-lashed his laggards. Beginning immediately, he told them, they were to act like ladies, gentlemen-and scholars. They sat amazed as he gave his startling ultimatum: girls were to be addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel...