Sentence examples for gentleman agent from inspiring English sources

Father was Leland Hayward. the "gentleman agent" and later Broadway producer, who taught Fred Astaire how to dress and whom Katharine Hepburn called "the most wonderful man in the world"—even after he ended their romance to marry Margaret Sullavan.

Director Terence Young embarked on a crash course to turn the unpolished Scotsman Connery into the English "gentleman agent" Bond had to be.

Connery learned how to dress and how to act as that gentleman agent called James Bond, just as generations of men have learned from watching Bond, beginning with Connery's definitive incarnation.

But there was a particular fantasy about Bond, the sense that "one man," as the ads kept intoning, a gifted "gentleman agent" as Fleming had it, could single-handedly save the day, dispatch the villains, win the girl(s), and look and sound cool while doing it.

On the page, this gentleman secret agent, based loosely on Maugham's own experiences in behalf of His Majesty's Government in World War I, was more the observer than the doer; his literary role was to deliver anecdotes about more colorful figures than himself.

Here's a letter a local travel office got from an out-of-town travel agent: Gentlemen: Our client, Mr. Name Deleted, took a 3 day tour commencing on July 14 to Mont St. Michel and the Normandy Beaches, arranged by your Paris office.

By M. MacDonald and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, September 25 , 1954P. 27 Here's a letter a local travel office got from an out-of-town travel agent: Gentlemen: Our client, Mr. Name Deleted, took a 3 day tour commencing on July 14 to Mont St. Michel and the Normandy Beaches, arranged by your Paris office.

When he starred as a magazine writer posing as a Jew in the daring social drama "Gentleman's Agreement," his agent cautioned that moviegoers might resent a film about anti-Semitism.

By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, May 2 , 1931 P. 11Bootlegger agrees to send order over even after he is informed that the gentleman is an internal revenue agent.

The New Yorker, May 2 , 1931 P. 11Bootlegger agrees to send order over even after he is informed that the gentleman is an internal revenue agent.

Gentleman, attorney, insurance broker.