Word: genteelism
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...last week's game, the crowd was better behaved than on the day of the ticket sale. No one offered to kill the referees and no one screamed for the manager's scalp. If a score appeared imminent, spectators shouted a genteel, "have a go." A scoring failure was greeted with good-natured cries of "good try, lad." A finer scoring shot was rewarded with cries of "Smashing!" Arsenal scored late in the first half; in the second half, Chelsea tied it up in a melee in front of the Arsenal goal. It ended that...
Originated in 1886 by William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen '84, the tutoring business grew up rapidly. In the early 1930's, half a dozen cram bureaus vied for the Harvard trade from their quarters in the Square, dishing out a New Deal in educational methods. The genteel monopoly established by the Widow was transformed into a sharply competitive business whose practices were often quite unethical. A number of devices were used: ghost-writing papers, spotting or stealing exam questions, recommending "gut" courses, bribing monitors for class lists, hijacking lecture notes, and summarizing texts in violation of copyright laws...
...scene of the drama is the deep South, and it too has been chosen to conform to Miss Hellman's philosophical preconceptions. Illusion and romance envelope the genteel Southern boardinghouse of the Tuckerman family, and the play becomes a study of the effect that tough-minded personalities have on these illusions. Florence Eldridge plays an insecure Southern belle, wound up in the intricacy of a false emotion, who sees in life only what she wants. She cannot believe that her disillusioned husband (perhaps too much her antithesis to be really credible) wishes to divorce her merely in order to commune...
This time, Novelist Stead's people are the genteel, moderately well-to-do Massines of Manhattan. There are two kinds of Massines: the ineffectual angels and the merely ineffectual. They like music, love dogs, hate snobbery and believe in family loyalty, but their will and ambition have gone soft. A bit decayed yet not decadent, they are rather like their 1,000-acre summer estate, an impressive old place that is slowly turning to weed...
...Record story continues, "Harvard, officially, wants football to be a nice, genteel game played by uppercrust boys--at however, the same admission fees. He (Jordan) is saying that football should be emphasized, and re-emphasized, and not de-emphasized...