Word: genteel
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...library tables of most genteel U. S. homes ten years ago lay at least one magazine of high-grade fiction & belles lettres, and one heavy review. The fiction-belles lettres ranks, which once included Everybody's, Munsey's, Century, Mc-Clure's, Scribner's, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, have been heavily decimated. All but the last three have died or been transformed unrecognizably...
...publisher Edgar M. Alexander, advertising manager of the late New York Worlds, onetime vice president and advertising director of Hearst's American. More recently he hired as general manager bright, clean-cut Ralph Nicholson, 33, who studied economics at Harvard, worked for Scripps-Howard and for the genteel Curtis-Martin papers. Manager Nicholson's first act was to clean up the paper. Still blatantly sensational, the Graphic no longer flaunts sexy news stories and headlines. Reports of extra-marital philandering, except as matters of court record, are eschewed. Forbidden are headlines not definitely substantiated by stories. Near-nudes...
...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...
...League. George Grosz has had quite as sound academic training as Jonas Lie, but since the War he has lost interest in fishing boats, cows, rocks. An embittered critic of the bourgeoisie, he does biting caricatures on canvas of bloated politicians, policemen, militarists, ?subjects appalling to genteel Jonas Lie. The upshot of the argument was that George Grosz was not invited to the League, that both President Sloan and Director Lie resigned. Jonas Lie's resignation was not accepted. Mollified, he withdrew it. The Board had another wordy meeting trying to decide whether to accept President Sloan's resignation...
...name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the path that ancient sovereigns took when they rode from Westminster to hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches in Britain. Sportsmen of Sir Walter Gilbey's generation would sooner go to Buckingham Palace in their shirtsleeves than appear in the Row improperly clad. The blood of the old distiller chilled...