Word: genteel
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...Times's Curtis was covering an upper-crust Waltz Evening in Boston's Sheraton Plaza Hotel, and she could not resist noting that the ballroom temperature steadily ascended from 59° to 64°, impelled by all that genteel exertion. Nor did she refrain from logging the other leisure pursuits of Mrs. E. Sohier Welch, patroness and architect of the bash. In her spare time, reported Society Reporter Curtis, Mrs. Welch crusades against billboards, litterbugs, and "laws that prevent the sale of birth control devices in Massachusetts...
...Charmingly Square." Like Civil Servant Lewis Eliot, fictional hero of his series of novels, Snow was born "shabby genteel, really, just a cut above the working class." Their careers have run parallel for two decades, and Snow's newest book, Corridors of Power, makes the coincidence even closer...
Fifteen years ago, California politics was floating through an era of constructive good feeling. Governor Earl Warren had spread his bipartisan patrimony over every policial faction, and candidates ran for office with genteel good humor, eschewing debate for folksy celebrations of the sun, surf, and oranges...
Despite the rough realities of American life in the 1820s, Con Melody lives completely within his genteel fantasy. He despises the local villagers. He believes himself a Byron, standing in the crowd but not of it, and he often strikes an absurd pose before the mirror to recite the poet's lines, reflecting vainly on his lost aristocratic past...
...from Aeschylus to lonesco. Though it is a rather fragile choice, the play's apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall performances recapture the poignancy of the 19-year-old play that was Williams' first success...