Word: genteeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Women (MGM) is Hollywood's second try at exploiting Louisa May Alcott's genteel, durable New England tearjerker. A shade less ambitious than its 1933 predecessor (which starred Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), it still jerks tears with easy efficiency...
...clever, ugly young man opened a private school in an English village, hoping to support his new wife by drumming Latin into boys' heads. Few came to Samuel Johnson's school; one of those who did was 19-year-old David Garrick, son of a shabby-genteel army captain. Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries. When the school collapsed for lack of students, the awkward Johnson and the terrier-like Garrick...
Apples & Crackers. She portrayed herself as one who had spent most of he,r life starving in a genteel way. During years of unsuccessfully "trying to do something worth while in the American theater" she said she sometimes lived on "apples and crackers" and once went without food for eight days. Finally, in 1940, she ended up broke in Berlin, hocked her "jewels" and went to work at a routine announcing job for the German radio...
F.D.R. left Sara Roosevelt's world, where genteel people set good examples, to begin making another world for himself...
...genteel tradition" in American college fisticuffs is in the making at the Indoor Athletic Building...