Word: genteel
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...moment a fribble fellow who orders his dressing gown to match his sheets and his boots buffed with champagne. Or again, he is the glorious adventurer. At the end of the picture, he dies in a Calais garret, with the King at his side, of a genteel consumption taken, as he says, when he "shared a carriage with a damp stranger...
...between two frightfully rich young things (Julie Andrews and John Hewer) who represent themselves to each other as awfully poor. "I could be happy with you," they duet, "if you could be happy with me." Between whiles, girls wearing frocks with waistlines near their shins mince about squealing genteel idiocies ; everybody makes remarks of a piercing obviousness; couples tango and Charleston and go in for every form of jazz-age contortions...
Ever since the middle of the war, well behaved Londoners have patiently queued at recognized bus stops to await their chance, in order and decorum. To its friends, queueing up is a symbol of British fair play; to its enemies, a sign of genteel regimentation typical of the new British welfare state. Either way, only the vulgarest opportunists ever sought to bypass the queue by climbing aboard the open rear platform of a halted bus between stops. Last week, however, once respectable middle-aged businessmen and elderly ladies were kiting after stopped buses like hounds on the scent...
...Speed. The retired colonels and genteel ladies who made up most of the audience were not swept off their seats, but the press raved. ". . . Full of music that gets up and goes somewhere . . . melodious, impassioned and expertly orchestrated," wrote Cecil Smith in the Daily Express. And the Times was even more enthusiastic: "Tonight's concert may well prove a landmark in the history of . . . our English music . . . a new force among contemporary composers...
Remove Your Hat. Many of Amy's ideas are briskly practical: "I just notice what most people would do under what we would call genteel circumstances. If I go to the Colony restaurant and see that half of the women are without hats, I can't say that you can't go into a restaurant without a hat." Amy's own life reflects the sociological change she feels has transformed fashion and etiquette. Born an authentic Vanderbilt (but not a Social Register one), Amy, 45, has three children and has married and divorced three husbands...