"There was now a tobacconist in Great Queen Street," Carey writes, "and a narrow little workroom where glass eyes were made for dolls and injured gentlemen". The gentlemen themselves have changed, for Phipps is not the only newly minted member of the gentry in this London of suddenly fluid classes.
I'm happy to announce that I'll be sitting down with the gentlemen themselves this Friday night at Webster Hall in New York City (Tickets Here), with an interview and show recap live for you the following week.
To European gentlemen testing themselves against the steep pitches of the Alps, that was appetite-whetting information.
The die-hard Tories were discredited as Jacobites, seeking the restoration of the Stuart heirs to the throne, though about 100 country gentlemen, regarding themselves as Tories, remained members of the House of Commons throughout the years of the Whig hegemony.
The major comedians of 1930s and '40s radio Jack Benny, Fred Allen, George Burns, Edgar Bergen, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Red Skelton all had as announcers genial gentlemen who themselves became famous simply because they appeared, week after week, with the gifted stars featured on their programs.
"Just a lot of tired old men doing the same old stuff" – the League of Gentlemen send themselves up at their first live performance in eight years Nominees are announced for the so-called King or Queen of Comedy gong at the British comedy awards.
Gentlemen convince themselves that it is best the President should have the power, and then study for arguments.
On the stage, we know that the Princess of France and her ladies have been rudely forced to camp out in tents, while the King of Navarre and his gentlemen lock themselves inside their walls like monks.
These gentlemen should count themselves lucky they were not there to hear Binyamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu speak to the American Congress on the morning of May 24th.
For months many of these gentlemen have kept themselves busy assailing dictatorships, especially as represented by the spectres of a third term and John L. Lewis.
In an 1870 editorial, he excoriated American gentlemen for thinking themselves too good for politics, and the double edge of this critique is typical of him: Is he upbraiding gentlemen for being squeamish, or politicians for being vulgar?
