Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...this, the first number of The Harvard Critic, the editors give as the principal reason for the establishment of a new medium of student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...
...left Scripps-Howard to edit the four-year-old Cleveland Times which momentarily challenged the Plain-Dealer's monopoly in the morning field. For lack of advertising the Times withered within a year, having been nothing more potent than an honest, genteel, ingenuous paper. Editor Martin became industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce...
Author Morley has kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...
...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...