Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England gossips would have talked themselves into a hoarse frenzy had a President Emeritus of Harvard expressed more than a genteel preference for one candidate or another--in the half mythical days when President Coolidge was a Senior in good standing at Amherst. But that was before Woodrow Wilson changed his presidency from one in Tigertown to one in Washington...
...scene is laid in Boston, which Mr. Henry describes as a place with "an air genteel of respectability, which makes you understand that worldly wealth must not be discussed in public, and that on no account must you mention castor oil in the presence of ladies." It purports to be the diary of a middle-aged ex-professor in a boys' school who on the death of his uncle becomes automatically possessed of the latter's Boston house and cheerful $20,000 income, and on his own account, of an engaging ability to play around with flappers...
...Harvard students continue to wear felt hats in the middle of June? Straw hats, the dealers say, have been the genteel headgear for men for nearly a month, yet statistics compiled by a CRIMSON reporter late yesterday afternoon showed three out of ten Harvard men wear straws...
...work, is no longer known nor was it then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some times with a ridiculed phrase, some times with an exaggerated gesture. They did not quite...
...audience gets sickish, too. While there is much genteel jocularity in Ida Lublenski Ehrlich's play, its point can be seen several blocks away. When attained, it hardly seems worth panting after. Mrs. Fiske is her usual sparkling, irridescent self...