The Heqanakht papyri, written by a gentleman farmer, date to the Eleventh dynasty and represent some of the lengthiest private letters known to have been written in ancient Egypt.
On Thursday, the diner-viewers included a group of visiting Saudis, a silver-haired gentleman and his date, and the Peters family of Hinsdale, Ill., on a six-day whirlwind tour of the big city.
"I guess I can intellectually say I understand it," said Ron Rossi, the executive director of USA Luge, upset that a gentlemen's agreement dating to the 1980 Lake Placid Games has ended.
I dated gentlemen who cared about me, but didn't display what I wanted in a long-term relationship.
Be a gentleman on your date.
After the new couple agrees on the first date, the gentlemen caller picks where it occurs.
Judging by the ladies' and gentlemen's clothes, it dates from the 18th century and is an extraordinarily delicate example of a style worn by all social classes.
One night, with an all-male serving staff attending, tables were claimed in turn by four grown men, parents with two grade-school boys, parents with two teenage boys and a husky gentleman with his petite date, all happily eating mounds of brittle fritto misto dipped in lemon aioli and big portions of baked strozzapreti pasta with spicy Italian sausage.
The idea of an elite that is not motivated by personal gain has a venerable history in our land, dating to gentlemen politicians like Washington and Jefferson and continuing through the progressive reformers and industrialist philanthropists of a century ago, the Harrimans and Roosevelts and Rockefellers.
