Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain without changing color between...
Cuba last week had its first revolution in seven years. Compared with the butcheries that clotted up the regimes of Gerardo ("Tyrant") Machado and preceding Cuban presidents, it was as genteel as a dowager's hiccup...
...studied mathematics, then to Georgia to teach school and study law. He lived on the plantation of General Nathanael Greene's charming widow. She urged her whittling friend to devise a machine for cleaning cotton. Author Burlingame thinks that any Yankee tinkerer, set down amid the lazy, genteel Georgians and their seedy bolls, could have invented the cotton...
...average picture of gambling, snobbery and alcoholism among the more gilded British collegians. At the end of his wild night he finds that his father is not only dead but bankrupt and that his real life has begun. On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums...
...decision on the Rumanian Government's request that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...