Word: genteeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times permitted itself a genteel snicker: EGA UNDERWRITES LAUGHTER FOR GERMANS ; FINANCES COMIC AS WELL AS TRUE LOVE TALES. The story from Berlin, by Timesman Edward A. Morrow, * said that Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...
...Shameful Profession. It was a long stretch from the genteel poverty of the Kentucky farm where D. W. Griffith was born in 1875 to the international renown he achieved. He had wanted to be a writer, but all that he wrote floundered and failed. In the beginning he was ashamed to be an entertainer: he toured with road shows as Lawrence Griffith. He was stranded in tank towns, fired, overworked and underfed. Between roles, he did slob labor...
...Below stairs" this setup is neatly imitated by Bullivant the butler and Mrs. Selden the cook, who spend the bulk of the day tyrannizing over two minor lackeys named George and Miriam with just the same genteel, long-winded authorita-tiveness that Horace exercises upstairs...
...Cryptogamic. College presidents were not amused when Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process...
...Stewart pulls out a gimmick providing for a return to normalcy; Stewart marries Jane Wyman, a newspaperwoman who has been involved throughout. A great many other things happen during this march of events, such as a basketball game, a Saturday night dance in a high school gymnasium, and a genteel love scene or two, but none of them detract enough from the main line to provide salvation for the picture as a whole, entertaining as they may be locally...