Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moss, lichen, and the soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs are genteel but poor, and Mr. Walter Connolly is very poor. Everyone is in love throughout the play, but with different persons, and Miss Gaynor, the only communicative lover, is full of romantic mendacity, and cannot be relied upon...
...year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep an eye on him? In the Transcript office Mr. Fletcher is famed for his eyeshades-envelopes stuck between his temples and the bows of his spectacles. He is a stubble-bearded, genteel, firm believer in oldtime Christianity and Prohibition. He is a baseball addict, fond of plucking batting averages from his capacious memory and correcting the errors of sportswriters. Last week "Churchman" Fletcher announced his retirement and the Transcript gave its readers a new and strikingly different religious editor. Dr. Albert Charles Dieffenbach...
...Francisco's Pacific Street starts at the waterfront, plods westward through the northern warehouse district, climbs past Chinatown and the Italian quarter to Larkin Street. There it changes its name to Pacific Avenue, straightens its dress and saunters out to the Presidio as a genteel residential lane. The first few blocks of Pacific Street today are a dreary line of warehouses, garages, shabby hotels, lunchrooms. Formerly they were the centre of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, for nearly 70 years the most vicious and depraved spot in the U. S. The amazing scenes and incredible characters...
Author Norris is a prolific rather than a pretty writer, a searcher for the genteel rather than the just word. For "pimple" he writes "eruption"; for "naked," "nude"; for "died," "expired...
...policemen are as genteel as tall, bland Thomas Wentworth Russell, whose family (the Dukes of Bedford) have been potent in British politics almost continuously since Henry VIII. Few policemen are as magnificent, for his white dress tunic with its glittering scimitar is splattered with stars and medals. Few policemen are busier, for Thomas Wentworth Russell is not only Chief of Cairo's police, but spends much of his time as Director of the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau of Egypt, a position equivalent to that of world's chief narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut...