Word: genteel
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...Manchurian Candidate. On a dais in a shabby-genteel parlor down in Dixie, an exquisite little old lady stands and twitters to the Garden Club on a subject dear to her heart: "Fun with Hydrangeas." But gracious, what is the little old lady saying...
When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still...
Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
...suave, flippant score was just right for the genteel hipster hero it accompanied, and with its reed melodies and assertive, five-piece, rhythm-section backing, it was distinctive enough to be heard by itself. In fact, an LP record of Peter Gunn themes has sold an astonishing 750,000 copies...
...only real difference is Radcliffe's preference for a low-pressure effort. Students are invited but not urged to give. In the past this method has produced a small amount of money, which might be increased if the drives merged. If the Radcliffe committee wants to retain its genteel tactics, co-ordination would still provide an effective way of reaching the Radcliffe public. Spurred by the example of their more generous friends at Harvard, the 'Cliffies might even enlarge their donations voluntarily...