To the extent that people imagine the training of pickpockets, they probably picture the sooty urchins of Fagin's den, in "Oliver Twist," rehearsing the theft of fob watches from gentlemen's waistcoats.
Hallier, a tireless salesman, still accepts ads from gentlemen's clubsads for Flash Dancers irked some New Yorkers in September.
Writing for Foreign Policy, Will Marshall compares Obama's backtrack in Syria to the British Empire's "east of Suez" moment in the 60s, when it finally became clear that Blighty probably couldn't run the world from gentlemen's clubs in the West End any more.
"We were just on our way back from our gentlemen's club, the ball rolled in our path, and we thought we'd have a quick match".
The library lounge, with its paneled walls, fireplace, hunt prints and leather chairs, could have been plucked from a gentlemen's club in London.
Just as the audience was beginning to catch on — somehow he was concealing the coins between his fingers — he flashed his empty palm and, thunk, dropped another coin, and then grabbed another from a gentlemen's white hair.
Outside the New York loop of young, edgy literati and excluded from the Gentlemen's Club of elder literary statesmen, Tyler, now in her sixties, lives in quiet, productive seclusion in Baltimore, where nearly all her novels are set.
I think most people actually know all of this deep down, and it would be an enormous shame if a whole country betrayed its European values because of a cockfight between two spoiled boys from the gentlemen's club.
Outside the New York loop of young, edgy literati and excluded from the Gentlemen's Club of elder literary statesmen, Tyler, now in her 60s, lives in quiet, productive seclusion in Baltimore, where nearly all her novels are set".
The Football Association had only lifted its amateur requirement in 1885, begrudgingly allowing clubs to pay players and changing the sport from a gentlemen's pastime to a more meritocratic business.
During the three decades that Wall Street grew up, morphing from a gentlemen's investment club into a global financial colossus, Michael Steinhardt emerged as the world's greatest trader.
