Word: genteelism
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Most Harvardmen agreed that such action would not have been necessary in the days when Cambridge tutoring was in the hands of William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen. A summa cum laude graduate of the class of 1884, "Widow" Nolen kept tutoring a genteel monopoly until his death in 1923. Today there are five bureaus in sharp, noisy competition...
...Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly the eerie quality that surrealists desire. Least concerned with sexual symbolism and one of the most commercially successful of surrealists is genteel, dapper Pierre Roy, whose gay arrangements of bright ribbons, bits of seashells, sticks and empty wine glasses have long charmed socialites, advertising art directors and smartchart editors. But surrealism would never have attracted its present attention in the U. S. were it not for a handsome 32-year-old Catalan...
Failing such heroic methods, a renaissance in the vigorous vocal disapproval of the Elizabethans would be balm to the shattered soul of the man, dropped between the two halves of Mae West's latest, and condemned to the tortures of a stage show. The rise of the word genteel, and of all that it connotes, during the last century, has effectually outlawed such virile practice as booing, hissing, the throwing of fruit--with the exception of communities on the farthest frontier and of political meetings...
Although the portraits of eminent men of letters usually show features as battered as those of heavyweight prizefighters, the legend persists that the literary life is genteel, academic, serene. Last week three survivors of many a literary free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat...
...Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord...