Within groups, "rapists" out-compete "gentlemen" for mates and so, if within-group selection were the only force, the "gentlemen" water striders would be extinct.
"They said 'I won't compete with this gentleman,' " Mr. de Swaan said.
Gender and class roles were toppled, as the lowest-ranking members in the social hierarchy imitated gentlemen (competing for the distinction of "Lord of Misrule"); men dressing and acting like women, and vice-versa, as they literally exchanged clothes, among other things.
During baseball's infancy, a colour barrier was put up by the first formal organization of baseball clubs, the National Association of Base Ball Players, which decreed in 1867 that clubs "which may be composed of one or more coloured persons" should not be permitted to compete with its teams of gentlemen amateurs.
Gentlemen insisted on being allowed to compete with salaried "players"—something that would have been impossible in a closed league.For a long time, baseball players had the best of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Hedgelaying Championship, where Britain's best compete for honor and glory in the ancient art of transforming unwieldy shrubs into managed rows.
But Yogi Berra, holder of those conferred venerations, isn't up to coming south from his home in New Jersey anymore to advise the — shall we say — unexceptional gentlemen currently competing for the starting catching position.
The two gentlemen callers competed to offer the sweetest encomiums to their wives and daughters, though Mr. Kerry showed the bite in his overwhitened, overeager "I'm smarter than you but I'm trying not to show it" grin when he strategically dragged Dick Cheney's gay daughter back into the debate, a dead-wrong thing to do.
"But just as the basketball player Julius Irving was a gentleman off the court" who went for the jugular during games, "they compete fiercely.
Behind them, the ladies and gentlemen of the press jerk on wires, yanked from on high by a second Billy, and compete to do his bidding.
During the interview a colored gentleman with a thin mustache appeared, picked out two cymbals, laid… Talk visit to Princeton campus to see the Oxford and Cambridge track men who compete with a combined team from Cornell and Princeton.
