Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Photoplay magazine was the bona fide Jacqueline Kennedy, with Daughter Caroline at her side. The story inside: a lengthy comparison of Caroline and Shirley Temple. Said Photoplay: "We waited 20 years until another little girl, Caroline Kennedy, came running into America's heart." And on the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly, a slick symposium of the latest men's fashions, was a specially posed photograph of President Kennedy himself, modeling a trimly tailored dark grey suit...
Wherever he went in Japan, Bob Kennedy made it plain that he spoke for the President of the U.S. Arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport, Kennedy tried out two sentences in Japanese. The first was: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are very happy to visit your country." The second-and it sounded a theme that Kennedy was to repeat over and over again-was: "My brother, who is the President, wishes me to convey to you all his very best regards." Next day, calling upon Minister of Justice Koshiro Ueki, Kennedy commented on the "fair" way in which Japanese judges...
...credit for the watercolor's popularity in England, some scholars say, goes to the British aristocracy. Young lords and gentlemen who took the Grand Tour got the urge to make a visual record of what they saw, and it became a matter of pride to know how to draw. As early as 1622, Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman included drawing as an essential part of the aristocrat's education; later editions of the book contained a whole section on "Lantskip.'' The aristocratic amateurs produced no masterpieces of their own, but they set the stage...
...Seine. Now he had to decide whether or not to risk everything with an attack on Kluck. Throughout a long afternoon, Joffre sat in the shade of an ash tree, a ponderous figure in black tunic, baggy red pants, and army-issue boots, and faced the problem. "Gentlemen," he said finally, "we will fight on the Marne...
...Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually at home but when their wives and children are." In an editorial, he added savagely: "If you believe, gentlemen, that my existence is so harmful, then why strike in such an underhand fashion? My timetable is well known, my habits unchanged, no guards dog my footsteps. The assignment is therefore easy enough, and, as you know, immunity is more or less assured...