He is expecting these gentlemen to cooperate with him and not hide things.
"In one theatre in Germany," Mrs Kent recalls, "it was discovered that through some error in the contract the troupe was expected to entertain gentlemen after the last performance.
To re-paraphrase Kathleen Parker (as I did in a previous post), young men now in their 20s have never experienced a culture in which men were respected or expected to be gentlemen.
"At a time when some of the other cases were coming to the headlines I would expect this gentleman to get in line, too".
The photograph had not been sent here, so it's no surprise that the college was expecting a gentleman with Dostoyevsky's beard, Stalin's mustache, Chekhov's pince-nez, and a Tolstoyan blouse.
Girls expect a gentleman to treat other people with common courtesy.
Of course Heschel, with his rabbinic features, could not have looked too much like the jolly gentleman expected to visit homes late Christmas Eve.
His reaction was not what I'd expected, considering the gentleman had identified himself earlier as a Republican and the pundits he'd complained about were McCain surrogates.
Wabash students are expected to act as gentlemen on and off campus at all times.
"Old Abe," sneered one commentator at the time, was "puttin' on (h)airs!" Of course, mid-19th-century gentlemen were expected to sport whiskers at a certain time of life, so Lincoln's beard hardly looked strange.
