I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

" Later, in a masque by Thomas Nabbes, The Springs Glorie produced in 1638, " Christmas " appears as " an old reverend gentleman in furred gown and cap ".

They were usually composed of wealthy " country gentlemen " ( i. e. landowners, farmers and merchants ): “ A country gentleman as a member of a Grand Jury ... levied the local taxes, appointed the nephews of his old friends to collect them, and spent them when they were gathered in.

At a certain spot the old gentleman would stop the carriage and take his son to a stone on the site of the Battle of Melrose ( 1526 ).

Even the most senior, renowned and professionally-accomplished nuclear-trained officers that Rickover had personally selected, such as Edward L. Beach, Jr., had mixed feelings about " the kindly old gentleman ," or simply " KOG ", as Rickover became euphemistically known in inner circles.

And there was a croquet court, where a Gibson Girl might be seen playing against a gentleman with a wonderful mustache ... It was quite the thing to elope by the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal boat, be married at the Ferry by the tolltaker, who was a retired parson, and honeymoon at Hilltop House.

Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.

When the old gentleman asked if he could be helped for his fear of riding in an elevator, I told him I could probably scare the pants off him in another direction.

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called President Hyde a " fine and scholarly old gentleman ", while President Hyde and King George V corresponded about stamp collecting.

The show followed the adventures of Doctor Snuggles, a kind old gentleman who lives in a comfortable home with his elderly housekeeper, Miss Nettles.

Tom rushes outside with a broadsword and drives them off and helps the old gentleman into the house.

In this connection, too, one may quote the old story, told by some — very improbably — of James II, of the monarch who replied to a lady petitioning him to make her son a gentleman, " I could make him a nobleman, but God Almighty could not make him a gentleman.

Bennett, Rutherford's rival and later Prime Minister, concurred with this assessment, calling Rutherford " a gentleman of the old school ... not equipped by experience or temperament for the rough and tumble of western politics ".

The film's title uses an old expression from the British Royal Navy and subsequently from the U. S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, as being charged with " conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman " ( from 1860 ).

“ He ( Mazomanie ) was an Indian chief in our state and was well known to the old gentleman, H. L.

The Dictionary of American Food and Drink offers this creative old wives ' tale about the origin of the word: Late one evening a traveling gentleman stopped by a New Orleans inn which had little food remaining from the evening meal.

The company was founded in Kingston upon Thames by Thomas Octave Murdoch ( Tommy, later Sir Thomas ) Sopwith, a well-to-do gentleman sportsman interested in aviation, yachting and motor-racing, in June 1912, when Sopwith was only 24 years old.

For example, one chapter centers on a young provincial man who feels lonely and alienated in the capital Stockholm, is befriended by a nice old gentleman who tells him ( and the reader ) about the city's history-and only later finds that it was none other than the King of Sweden, walking incognito in the park.

They typically include such stock characters as a handsome young gentleman and his beautiful and rich fiancée, an actress with past glory and an alcoholic husband, a clumsy aspiring young author, a retired colonel, a quiet middle-aged man no one knows anything about who is supposedly the host's old friend, but behaves suspsiciously and a famous detective.

Drayton described the capture in his later memoir: " A Mr. Dodge, of Georgetown, a wealthy old gentleman, originally from New England, missed three or four slaves from his family, and a small steamboat, of which he was the proprietor, was readily obtained.

Director Peter Everett said that he was a true actor of the old school and a perfect gentleman.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

" John Ryon, Esq .," as my father wrote his name among the patrons of my sister ’ s school, was at that time a member of the state senate, deservedly popular, a most generous and obliging gentleman.

Delderfield attended an infant school in Bermondsey, then a " seedy and pretentious " small private school —" seventy boys and four underpaid ushers, presided over by a jovial gentleman who wore blue serge ".

The year following that disaster, his mother brought him back to England, and placed him, then nine years of age, at school with a Catholic gentleman at Finchley — this doubtless through the influence of his grandfather, the 11th Earl.

A wealthy bachelor often dating socialites, he lives in a large apartment at 600 E. 62nd Street in Manhattan ( the address given by Mr. French when he registered Buffy and Jody for school ), and has a quintessential gentleman's gentleman, Giles French.

After being at school at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, and Worcester he was entered as a ' gentleman commoner ' at Trinity College, Oxford, and afterwards studied law under Sir Francis Winnington, who became solicitor-general, and joined the Middle Temple.

When it came time to vote, it resulted in a tie, so one enterprising gentleman, Reuben F. Wilson, asked Elder Garfield ( who loved to talk ) to get up and make a speech in favor of the free school.

William at once decides to follow the second one, who goes to a school building through the cover of laurel bushes and at a blackened window, William sees an elderly gentleman with many women talking and putting flags on maps.

Described as a " gentleman of the old school ", Bland died in his bed from " a disease of the heart " in Annapolis, Maryland on November 16, 1846.

Though he was a strict, stern disciplinarian of the old school and an unflinching Conservative, Catholic and royalist, even his political and military opponents respected him, and were proud of him as an unblemished type of the Castilian soldier and gentleman.

Concerning his fine character, the Kennebec Journal said: " Commodore Bridge was a man of sterling principles and rugged honesty, with a strong mind and a warm heart ; a gentleman of the old school in all that means, of broad culture and with a genial polished manner ".

The school sport's nickname is the gentleman ; the women's sports ' nickname is the lady.

Such a title would have indicated an " educated gentleman ", hence by implication a graduate of a secular state school ( rüşdiye ), even though at least some if not most of these efendis had once been religious students, or even religious teachers.

This new school, also founded by the Council, was “ to instruct young gentlemen in mathematical learning, and the several branches of the science with which it is connected .” Its first rector, James Weir, described as “ a gentleman of considerable abilities, but rather a projector ,” took great interest in the problem of perpetual motion.

Rutherford, a gentleman of the old school, was a weak leader but he was supportive of education, pushing for the establishment of a Provincial University.

The school mascot is the Rebel ( a cartoon depiction of a " Southern gentleman " patterned after the University of Mississippi mascot ).

At school Roberto was known as " Roberto of the Devil " and he became known as an intelligent young gentleman.

This satire of an old school gentleman soldier set in his ways emphasises his ranting against anything that he believes goes against his dearly held traditionalist right wing moral values.

Born at Huntly-Hill, near Brechin, Angus, Nichol was the son of a gentleman farmer and was educated at the local grammar school and then at King's College, University of Aberdeen.

The headmaster has also noted that the school's priorities need to be refocused from its strong emphasis upon sport and culture to a more significant effort into improving the academics of the school, to really emphasise the motto of " Strenue " and of the all-round gentleman King Edwards has been producing since its founding.