Word: genteelism
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...gave a reception for three Greek Orthodox Metropolitans, Leningrad's Bishop Alexis, the Ukraine's Archbishop Nicholas, Moscow's 76-year-old Bishop Sergei, who was brought back for the occasion by special train from Mohammedan Tartar Republic, where for two years he has been in genteel exile...
Presumed Dead. Leslie Howard (néStainer), 50, genteel stage & screen favorite; in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane downed by the Nazis...
...week went formal notification that their streamlined, syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week has had its first change of editors. Out goes fragile, ailing Mrs. William Brown Meloney, 60, a dominating organizer who has been described as "fine lace made of cable wire." In comes her hand-picked successor, genteel William Ichabod Nichols, 37, ex-publicity man for Harvard, ex-newspaperman (A.P. correspondent at Oxford University), utilities executive (Insull), TVA promotion official...
...lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats and the genteel pat of ball against languid strings...
...Morgan who died last week was not of that breed. A tycoon by inheritance, he was not a buccaneer by nature. Born in 1867 at Irvington-on-Hudson, at the beginning of his father's career, "Jack" Morgan was brought up in a genteel tradition, educated at St. Paul's School and Harvard, served a turn in his father's expanding firm, in 1898 departed for London...