Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League of Gentlemen (AFM: Kingsley International). Midnight. A manhole cover lifts hesitantly. Not a soul in sight. The cover slides back and out of the hole pops-tickety-snit! an upper-class Englishman in a dinner jacket. Casually, he shoots his cuffs, slides into his Rolls and glides into this British comedy of misdemeanors-one of the brighter bubbles on the having-wonderful-crime wave (Ocean's 11, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Make Mine Mink, Two-Way Stretch} that has recently flooded the movie markets with felonious...
...regulations seem harsh indeed. College gates clang shut at midnight and the walls bristle with wicked spikes. By day, a Proctor prowls around the University hunting for transgressors. Since tradition forbids the Proctor to undertake personally the sordid business of making arrests, he is followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually is--a good Bulldog can be relied on to catch an errant undergraduate in four minutes flat...
...granted him only eight minutes to state his case. Said he in attacking the "committee packing": "I will cooperate with the Democratic leadership just as long and just as far as my conscience will permit me to go." When laughter rippled across the chamber. Smith retorted: "Some of these gentlemen who are laughing maybe do not understand what a conscience is." Mister Sam based his case on the nation's obligation and need to back up its new President. "He demonstrated on yesterday,'' said Rayburn. referring to Kennedy's State of the Union address, "that...
...apparently willing to do what he was told. Recalled Coste: "It was necessary to envisage the possibility of opening fire on the mob. 'Will you accept?' General Challe asked. One man said no. Challe asked me. I said yes." In bewilderment, Coste exclaimed to the military court: "Gentlemen, does a uniformed servant of the state have the right to discuss law and obedience to the law?" The testimony of the paratroop colonels, he said, "reveals an extraordinary state of affairs for an army. It shows that for some soldiers, an order is not an order but a basis...
...tradition-hallowed affair. The small children roaming the ringside heard no profanity, and no liquor was served inside the arena. As a sign over the door reminded the patrons of the best cockfighting in the U.S.: "Rules of this club are the simple rules that govern ladies and gentlemen everywhere...