Word: genteelism
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...left Scripps-Howard to edit the four-year-old Cleveland Times which momentarily challenged the Plain-Dealer's monopoly in the morning field. For lack of advertising the Times withered within a year, having been nothing more potent than an honest, genteel, ingenuous paper. Editor Martin became industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce...
...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...Hollywood contract two years ago, is the cleverest of the three vaudevillains. The incredibly stupid receptionist in the studio lobby is Zasu Pitts. While making vague enquiries about the name of an author who has been waiting to see Mr. Glogauer for four months, she utters genteel moans so sad that they are almost yodels...
...down the lazy Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg lies quiet old Port Royal, whose 500 inhabitants go about their unimportant affairs in a setting of faded 18th Century elegance. Port Royal has 60 old buildings, most of them built soon after the Revolutionary War. In their shadow there is genteel marketing, churchgoing, scampering of children. Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little...
...century ago, U. S. college fraternity life was quietly taking form in three genteel Eastern institutions. Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter society (1776), had already become nonsecret and purely honorary, with half a dozen chapters. Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. produced the next three: Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, between 1825 and 1827. A Kappa Alpha branch was formed at Williams College, a Sigma Phi branch at Hamilton College. The earnest youths who founded these orders adopted Phi Beta Kappa's early mottoes, secret rituals, badges, grips...