"He was a first-class gentleman today".
Van Damm is a would-be middle-class gentleman denying his roots as a Jew of Dutch extraction, a matter immediately remarked on in Lady Bracknell-like manner by his new employer.
I think he probably had that Victorian, middle-class gentleman's morality that sublimates sexuality into art or into nature".
"He's a first-class gentleman and a first-class pro.
"John Glenn was not only a pioneering astronaut, a great senator, he was a first-class gentleman and also he was a devoted husband and father," Nelson said.
Numerous newspapermen and upper-class gentlemen were involved in similar incidents, but The Vicksburg Sentinel's staff seems to have been a particularly quarrelsome lot.
Schools often present feminism as a hazy historical concept revolving around women jumping in front of horses and generally outraging the sensibilities of upper-class gentlemen.
A more sober attempt to revive the classical theatre was made by the academies, organized by upper-class gentlemen who assembled to read and, on occasion, to participate in and to support financially productions of classical drama.
The titular character is Harry Pendel, a British ex-con and fantasist who has set himself up in the deafening bustle of Panama as a high-class gentlemen's outfitter.
Jean Daste played the skipper and, for Jules, Vigo hired Michel Simon, largely on the strength of Simon's performance in Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (it's the film about a tramp rescued from the Seine by a middle-class gentlemen, whose life is turned upside-down by Boudu's riotous instincts).
It claims that, in past ages, British middle-class gentlemen had led moral, industrious lives, serving King, country, and family.
