Word: gentlemanly
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Yesterday Stuart D. Shapley '99, a candidate for council president, challenged his competitor Beth A. Stewart '00 over e-mail to a duel during which he promised to "redeem myself as an officer and a gentleman by running you through with my rapier, then methodically dispatching that shaggy horde you laughingly refer to as your campaign staff...
...Verbatim quote from Bob Dole: if Elizabeth Dole becomes President, I hope we can find a more fitting title for her husband than "First Man," a term which you seemed to find appropriate [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 17]. If Hillary is the First Lady, then Bob Dole should become the First Gentleman. Besides being the correct successor to First Lady, it would be quite appropriate for Bob Dole. But I suspect the press won't like it. First Husband, perhaps? RUFFORD HARRISON Washington...
...Some farmers are definitely gentleman farmers, and farm from the office, but both my brother and my father are in the fields all day. They come home every night with big stains on their jeans," Adam Kovacevich says...
...that said, there are some excellent reasons to see this film, namely Kevin Spacey as the mysterious, simmering Jim Williams and, of course, the extraordinary Lady Chablis. Spacey was an inspired choice to portray the enigmatic, self-made Southern gentleman. His regal Georgia accent is as delicate as spun honey when he purrs, "Living here pisses off all the right people." And, in vintage Spacey style, that quiet, unflappable composure sets us up for a chilling revelation of his underlying volatility...
...ghost that seems nearest to Young's heart is a strange gentleman who hung about in B entryway of Massachusetts Hall. E. Fred Yalouris '71 was one of Young's advisees at the time and also remembers the man. "He was in his late fifties or early sixties--this was back in '67-'68--and he was dressed in wing-tipped shoes and a tweed jacket, very Ivy. The man came into B entryway one day and knocked on our door. He proceeded to sit and talk, always "very gracious and well-spoken." Young remembers that "he insisted that...