Word: genteel
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...Dallas. For its 3,000 ready-print customers, W.N.U. prints either four or six pages, with or without advertising, ships them to the country press, where local news and editorials are added. Available for rural clients are news analyses, a Washington letter, cartoons, war pictures, Bible lessons, comic strips, genteel fiction...
Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens. And it has the solid English virtue of never sacrificing plausibility to excitement: every detail, is made clear, and every character is pretty much of a human being...
...hill above the hurrying Kialing River, far enough outside Chungking town to be safe from air raids, sits the new Visitor's Hostel-a guest house to accommodate the steady stream of foreigners passing through the capital. On New Year's Eve, China's stocky, genteel, old-style Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. Rung gave a party there for the city's cosmopolite society-foreign diplomats, newspapermen, missionaries, native officials. The guests grew mellow on mild-tasting, brain-sieging Yellow Wine...
...Cool as genteel cucumbers are the county medical societies which make up the rank & file of the American Medical Association. But hot as a red pepper is the New York County (Manhattan) Medical Society, largest and most powerful in the U. S. Last fall, its members objected to closed conclaves of the officers, clamored for open-meeting discussion of all important business matters. Last week members kicked up another hullabaloo...
...picture is distinguished by one of Sir Cedric Hardwicke's somewhat sepulchral interpretations of genteel skulduggery, and by the fact that a first cousin once removed of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Alan Napier, plays a drunken coal miner. That invisibility has its decencies too is suggested when the invisible man turns his back to the audience to remove his visible pants...