Word: genteelism
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Romance today in the college towns, we understand, isn't so demure and genteel. Perhaps this is because so many professors now live in apartments or have oil burners. But students who need part-time jobs are just as plentiful, perhaps even more plentiful right now. Probably there are several thousand young men and women in Greater Boston who must earn money to help pay their college expenses this coming winter. Almost any modern boy can drive an automobile well, and possibly you might use one of them as a chauffeur a few days a week. Girls are still mighty...
...which permits no governmental censorship of radio programs, to stem the tide of "excessive and nauseating advertising." Though British listeners hear no advertising, they must pay a government license tax. There is small doubt that the 15,000,000 U. S. owners much prefer a "sponsored program-a genteel, ladylike term for radio advertising," to a broadcasting...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President and Dictator of Turkey, last month made known for the second time (TIME, Oct. 6; Nov. 24) that he must have an Opposition. Nothing drastic, of course, but the sort of genteel Opposition that used to make debates in the House of Commons so pleasant during the Victorian years when gentlemanly Whigs and gentlemanly Tories chased each other in and out of office. He gave orders that 30 Deputies of such an Opposition should be elected. Last week the new Parliament met, but Mustafa's Opposition was not even genteel; it was invisible...
...GENTEEL FEMALE...
Woods. As a definite, visible gesture, the President appointed a Director of Employment Relief. He called for Col. Arthur Woods of Manhattan, nephew-in-law of J. P. Morgan, a genteel and experienced emergency...