Word: genteelism
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...last few years, while one third of the population has lacked adequate medical attention, thousands of doctors have twiddled impecunious thumbs in empty offices. The American Medical Association has talked much, done little. Last year revolt rocked the genteel profession when 430 doctors, with big names and big practices, demanded that the A. M. A. pay more attention to the social problems of medicine, urged that the Government step in to help doctors as well as patients...
...Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms...
...Santa Anita Derby. In the carnival surroundings at Churchill Downs last fortnight, he had finished second to Lawrin in the $57,000 Kentucky Derby. But last week, in the patrician atmosphere of Maryland's old Pimlico, where the spectators' blood lines are almost as genteel as the horses', Dauber apparently felt at home...
...their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into obscenities. But all these accidents, says Freud, are meaningful. People forget-which means that they drive from their conscious minds-incidents that have unpleasant associations for them, such as feelings of guilt. Chance or faulty actions bring them...
...opposite way. Underplayed to the vanishing point, it left the audience wondering whether they had lost their hearing or the actors had lost their voices. With the pace a solemn largo, The Wild Duck, possibly the greatest play in the modern theatre, might have got by as a genteel pantomime had there been any gestures...