Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less can be said of Dive Bomber's plot. Elegant Errol Flynn goes about a flight surgeon's business of keeping the boys flying with genteel unreality. Belligerent Fred MacMurray, ace pilot, eventually sees the light and helps the surgeon design a high altitude pressure suit which costs MacMurray his life...
...summer of '39 a young Oxford don and his personable wife put their vacation at the disposal of the British Intelligence. Their assignment: to find out whether a certain invaluable British secret agent was still functioning in Central Europe. Their qualifications: native intelligence and the fact that, as genteel trippers, they are Above Suspicion. Result: a tense maze of typically Hitchcock bit players, business and hairbreadth escapes...
...voice was elated, but it was also as genteel as if he were describing the tennis matches at the Red-White Club in Berlin. "It is a fine summer morning," he said, "and the action here is wonderful...
Bowden Broadwater's story, "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," is an amusing account of domestic disaster in the genteel atmosphere of the best residence of a southern city. Mr. Broadwater's interest in decor is always a pleasure to come upon, and his use of this kind of detail here is very successful. If it sometimes seems that he conceives of his characters as mere extensions of decorators' fashions, that is at least a novel way of conceiving of characters; and in this story it is most appropriate of the several devices which characterize Broadwater's original satiric tone...
Among the entrants are two winners of the Wellesley race, Schmidt and Paul Carp '42, a collector of genteel old cars, Chapin Wallour '42, and Ted Frasier '42, who rode a high-wheeler in the fall race. Other competitors will be William Schall '42, Arthur Besse '42, John Liebler '42, and the pre-race favorite, six-foot two-inch Clay Orvis '42. Some of the men will bring back Radcliffe dates to the Dunster House Costume Party on tandems later in the evening...