How was 1967 different from, say, 1947, when the socially progressive Gentleman's Agreement beat out The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations, and Miracle on 34th Street, for Best Picture?
Mizzen Mast beat Giant Gentleman by four lengths and set a stakes record in the $400,000 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita yesterday.
If there was no explosion once it appeared, I thought it was quite possibly because "Gentleman's Agreement" had beat it out by a month or two and helped break the ice.
JOHN GUARE, who wrote the lyrics for the 1971 musical "Two Gentlemen of Verona," which beat "Follies" for the Tony Award in the best musical category: "I saw 'Follies' dozens of times.
Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, together we can beat polio in Sudan.
Froch was a generous victory, saying: "The only thing that feels bad is that I've had to beat a real gentleman in Mikkel Kessler, and a real warrior.
One rich old gentleman, though, stays behind, enjoying the beat, and looking to dance.
The gentleman who had previously held the beat had left, and they asked me to be the Bruins pregame, intermission and postgame host.
"The only thing that feels bad is that I have had to beat such a real gentleman, a real warrior and real nice man.
The old man expresses his contempt for gallant gentlemen like Marco, who work to beat the other fellow & to get ahead.
