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...After an undistinguished college tour . . . and with no talent except a genteel approach ... I began, in 1929, selling bonds, and then automobiles, to support two children, two cars and a two handicap at golf. At the sudden demise of the automobile business, I found that no one needed a vice president in charge of good will . . . but that there were thousands of good jobs for chaps who knew how to make something. A Navy commission or Government agency job only meant postponing the inevitable a few years . . . at which time the adjustment might be more difficult...
...over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite people who made up the Garden Party Only list in sister Barbara's address book. On these Basil cleaned up in one heart-squeezing blackmail after another, for they were willing to pay with their own souls for the Connollies' removal. When he decided to return to London...
Angel Street. A genteel Victorian parlor becomes a scarifying torture chamber (TIME...
...this fine forenoon the Ambassador and his lean, genteel, partly French wife had started on their morning constitutional from their stucco house down through the orchards of Cankaya Hill to the Embassy. They had surveyed the distant snowcapped mountains and had just passed the pale green apartment house occupied by British Counselor Geoffrey Thompson. Then, 50 feet away, the bomb went...
...ease in talking with the "little set" he had reigned over before the war; too many of the newcomers are Comrades who talk dogmatic stereotypes which are the death of all free discussion. The gentle schoolmaster, Clanricard, sick at heart in his wife's betrayal of him, makes genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must be sought." From the Genoa conference Jerphanion's friend Jallez writes...