Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Jimmy's has occupied great, dreary, genteel Kensington House at 5 Lexham Gardens. Its ponderous Victorian interior-dark red wallpaper and funereal furniture-is still lit and heated by gas. Among the 20,000 rack-brained heads that have bent over their notebooks in Jimmy's gaslight was Winston Churchill's. In 1893 he "swotted" at Jimmy's for Sandhurst. The headmaster said that Churchill was "able enough, but his mind strayed to other interests, was brilliant at history but sluggish in mathematics and science." The French master wanted Churchill thrown out. But he stayed...
...Caumariin. At week's end the police had not yet caught up with the Bluebeard of rue Le Sueur. But they thought they knew who he was: Dr. Marcel Petiot, who lived with his wife and son in genteel rue Caumartin, rented the house on rue Le Sueur as a "laboratory." Police said that Petiot had lived a delinquent childhood (letter stealing, perversion), had once been fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently...
Either the College was puritanical in those days or the local cafeterias were a far cry from the genteel Georgian and Hayes-Bick. Earlier College laws would indicate the former to be the case. For example, in 1655 students were required to"... weare modest and sober habit without strange, ruffian-like, or new-angled fashions, without lavish dresse for any excesses of aparal whatever," and they could not ".... weare long haire, locks or foretopps ..." nor indulge in the "... curling, crisping, parting or powdering their haire...
Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel. It was as if a set of genteel Temple Bailey romancers had wandered by mistake into the raw youthful violence of a James M. Cain plot...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...