The New Yorker, March 29 , 1947P. 28 An elderly gentleman spent a weekend with his daughter and son-in-law on L.I.
By E. Philipson and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, March 29 , 1947P. 28 An elderly gentleman spent a weekend with his daughter and son-in-law on L.I.
They brought the wrong kind of settlers: idle and indolent English gentlemen, who spent their time bowling in the streets.
Obsessed by the idea of being a gentleman, he spent an hour every morning dressing himself.
He was a real gentleman, who spent a lot of time talking to people.
By J. E. Samson and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, February 8 , 1947P. 21 A gentleman who spent the night at an upstate hotel, noticed a fly-blown sign that read, "Mardi Gras Tonight".
The Song-dynasty poet Su Dongpo served as governor of the city in the eleventh century, and since then the region has been associated with the cultivated life of the Chinese literati, scholar-gentlemen who spent their leisure hours writing poetry and conversing in gardens and teahouses.
In the 19th century, it was customary for young English gentlemen to spend a few months, even years, on a "grand tour" of Europe, returning home with mementos that might have included trinkets of coral from this Neapolitan community at the foot of Mount Vesuvius.
Portraying a pair of older New York City gentlemen, Mulaney and Kroll spend the filmed play deconstructing a range of topics ― from theater to politics to fame ― only to use the same conventions they ridicule to fuel their own performance.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have spent thirty years of my life doing just that!" The audience burst into applause.
