Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 25 years, the quiet, efficient, socially backward political machine of Harry Flood Byrd had a real fight on its hands. In Virginia's genteel valleys and sun-beaten towns, politicians were actually out campaigning for governor...
...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tearjerker, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...
...Cutler and Pola Chasman as Lorraine Sheldon were the most able, a happy chance considering the amount of plot and dialogue that depends on them. Barbara Nathan as an adoring, breathless, and retired Lizzy Borden, makes more of her short part than anyone else in the east. She is genteel and delicately loony with the greatest charm...