Word: genteel
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...Times Plaza) and increased its circulation to some 15,000. The Eagle was still dominant but youthful Publisher Peck thought he saw its influence slipping. New subways and new bridges had brought many thousands of Manhattan workers to live in Brooklyn. Apartment houses were popping up to replace the genteel old residences of Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn aristocrats were disappearing, out down Long Island or across to swank Manhattan...
...last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches.? Dr. Norwood's Sunday sermons draw large and genteel crowds. Weddings in St. Bartholomew's are society page news. Last week St. Bartholomew's made news of a different sort...
...California that was still bristling with forty-niners looked askance at Harte, with his foppish dress, his over-genteel manners. Harte returned the snobbish stare. With the flowing mustaches of his day, a leonine head of hair, an aquiline nose that hinted, without betraying his Jewish ancestry, Harte was a fine figure of a literary man. In later years it was reported that he had lived a rough and minerish life. Biographer Stewart doubts it, thinks Harte's devilishness was mostly in printing offices. As long as Harte kept culling posies from the rhetorical anthology he considered good writing...
Shaw and Harris were born in different corners of Ireland within six months of one another, but they never met till they were grownup. Shaw's father was a genteel but scandalous drunkard. With the Shaws for many years lived, innocently but unconventionally, a singing teacher, George John Vandaleur Lee. To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London. Painfully shy, Shaw's eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum...
...college freshman to relieve the generally depressing tedium of dining hall meals is to throw butter. More genteel, more instructive is a practice lately instituted in the freshman dining hall of the Harvard Union. Students of French and German, it became known last week, may sit at tables where the menu is printed and the conversation carried on in French and German, with professors present to keep the conversation alive. English is barred. Exquisite touch: the waitresses speak French and German. So successful have the linguistic tables become that it is planned for other students of other languages at polyglot...