Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baxter's letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill...
...Biggest little party was the Socialist Party, the Wailing Wall where genteel liberals could go to decry Republicans and Democrats alike and cast a respectable protest vote against the cacophonies of conscription and capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...
...only Boston bar traditionally associated with Harvard is the Riiz--inexpensive, crowded, and the place where simply everybody is seen. The Copley and Statler have conservatively genteel bars--keep away from the Merry-go-round bar at the former if you get dizzy easily...
Nearly all of them are frank, formularized potboilers, a virtuoso's improvisations on minor themes. Tempered to the genteel tastes of The New Yorker, these pieces seldom hold a Roman candle to real Ginsbergh fireworks. Yet they are also as hard, sharp, bright and cold as a display of surgical instruments; and sometimes they do genuinely surgical work...
...Dallas. For its 3,000 ready-print customers, W.N.U. prints either four or six pages, with or without advertising, ships them to the country press, where local news and editorials are added. Available for rural clients are news analyses, a Washington letter, cartoons, war pictures, Bible lessons, comic strips, genteel fiction...