Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealth; he did not need to build for a living. The son of a well-off Cleveland lawyer who handed over to him a bundle of stock in a new company named Alcoa, Johnson lives in a manner unrivaled by many architects since the days of the gentlemen dilettanti of Georgian England. He maintains several buildings for his personal use, most of them in a rolling park in New Canaan, Conn., including an underground culture bunker for part of his private collection of paintings...
...Federal Judge Charles Renfrew, it amounts to "a war of attrition." U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman says it reminds him of "the duels of young gentlemen of San Francisco in the last century, who matched each other tossing gold coins into the bay until one cried, 'Enough...
Ladies and gentlemen, there are 500 reasons why I began to write for children, but to save time I will mention only ten of them...
...grand tour the likes of which had not been seen since young gentlemen of means packed steamer trunks and set off by luxury liner to sample the rich life on the Continent. The bon vivant strode around a stud farm discussing bloodlines and conjuring up breeding programs for the stallions of his fancy. He dined on Welsh rabbit at a lush country estate, pondering a new business deal with each course. Hobnobbing with titans of industry, he discussed ventures in pharmaceuticals, breweries and public relations...
...Correspondent Jim Bell, who rode the Wendell Willkie presidential train in 1940, believes this year's Senate race in Massachusetts between Edward Brooke and Paul Tsongas was the fairest and most honorable campaign he has ever seen. "The two candidates," says Bell, "ended up the way they started: gentlemen...