Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yawkey was a Real Gentleman. This is the ultimate accolade. Fegan thinks Eddie Yost is a Real Gentleman. Caterino thinks the old shortstop Johnny Pesky is a Real Gentleman. The Old Boys admire Ted Williams, but nobody calls him a Real Gentleman. Ted has not been forgiven for refusing...
Certainly, no site seems immune to the peculiar magic of Singer's imagination. In The Gentleman from Cracow, a tiny town is given unaccustomed luxury and then led to ruin by a wealthy young man who is really "a creature covered with scales, with an eye in his chest, and on his forehead a horn that rotated at great speed." Supernatural beings stalk the cities as well. In The Power of Darkness, a Warsaw district receives strange tidings: "The word soon spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized...
...terms of the latest proposal to tenants have not been disclosed, due to what a Harvard spokesman called a "gentleman's agreement" between the University and the tenants...
DIED. Ngaio Marsh, 82, New Zealand author of 33 mystery novels over a career of 48 years; in Christchurch, New Zealand. Marsh belonged to the classic school of British writers who preferred gentleman detectives - like her own Roderick Alleyn-and who reveled in complicated puzzle plots. A director and producer in both Britain and New Zealand, Marsh used her theater experiences as background in such books as Night at the Vulcan (1951) and Killer Dolphin...
...President Theodore Roosevelt's fourth cousin once removed. Franklin was her only child, and she kept him in dresses and long curls until he was five. He was 14 before he first went to school, to Groton and then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman's C average" and yearned to be popular. Though he became editor of the Crimson, he could not make the freshman football team, and he was crushed at failing to get into Harvard's fanciest club, the Porcellian. Girls who encountered him at debutante dances considered him a lightweight...