Word: genteelism
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...decades, a varying number of NOCs (the exact figure is classified) have been installed abroad in big multinational corporations, small companies or bogus academic posts. The more genteel rules of traditional espionage do not apply to NOCs. When the Soviets caught a diplomat doing spy work during the cold war, they roughed him up a little and sent him home. Unmasked NOCs, on the other hand, have met with much harsher fates: CIA officer Hugh Redmond was caught in Shanghai in 1951 posing as an employee of a British import-export company and spent 19 years in a Chinese prison...
...once genteel and discreet Concorde Lounge at London's Heathrow Airport seemed more like a room full of excited school kids just before they set off on a field trip. Usually rational adults were elbowing each other for prime position for photographs, and giddily downed one - or both - of the two kinds of free champagne being offered. They pointed and chatted excitedly, and no one could stop smiling. I was one of them...
When, as a youngster, Hugh Jackman crossed the street on his way to school, he would doff his little blue woolen cap to the drivers who stopped for him. It's not that he is excessively well-mannered, although he is, or that he grew up in a particularly genteel part of Sydney, Australia, although he did. It was one of the school's rules. And Jackman, who went on to be head boy of his expensive, tradition-bound school (students there still wear kilts), was always the type who played by the rules...
...seems to be asking but not quite answering this question: What's the point of all this? The ability to spell is a sign of neither virtue nor brains. It's just a skill some people develop and some don't, and the national spelling bee is, in its genteel way, rather like Survivor, a pseudo event engaging real emotions...
...Amex, but still want to enjoy a good old fashioned bite at your folks’ expense—sans the crowds—the Four Seasons in Boston may have just the thing to celebrate those two new letters after your name. In the finest tradition of the genteel English high tea, the haute cuisine gurus at Boston’s five-star hotel have combined trendy Japanese fare with the more traditional scones and strawberries to make for a simply blissful, make-like-a-millionare afternoon extravaganza dubbed the “Power Tea.” Plus...