Word: genteelism
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There have been other names; less genteel, derived more directly from the Saxon, but still--other names. Police records describe the state as that of "intoxication." The Innocent bystander is content to analyze it as merely "drunk". And the young collegiate, ever ready to increase his vocabulary, has a host of terms in stock, from the concise "tight" to the quaintness of "potted". But it has remained for the W. C. T. U. or its New England branch, to define the condition with due branch, to define the condition with due respect to the recent amendment. If or when...
Those golden twins, Gilbert and Sullivan, are about to file auspiciously into Boston with the resounding accompaniment of "I am the Lord High Chancellor" and a crew of genteel pirates. No matter who is the producer, these Victorian gentlemen are guaranteed to amuse: and when the leader in their resurrection is Winthrop Ames even more may be anticipated--if more than amusement is desired in light opera...
...heart of Dutch New Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under Smithsonian auspices, and with the aid of admiring Dutch officers, they had flown a Liberty-motored seaplane to the upper reaches of the Mamberamo River, alighted and made friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird-like calling back and forth, the pygmies presented their visitors with fatted pig, and posed affably-like milk chocolate babies with ruddy fuzz...
...school had migrated to its final resting place on a green Connecticut hilltop. Now it lay in ashes, the ashes of $1,500,000, of which only a $500.000 phoenix would arise in insurance. Parents with daughters in need of finishing, friends of all that is genteel and established in private education, waited to see if the Ely sisters, now in their age, would permit fire to terminate a tradition which years and geography could never change...
...merely to ask your aid. I examine the wrapper of my copy carefully each week, and I am distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel, and somehow I can't persuade myself that it would be quite genteel to call the situation baldly to my friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will see it. ... This method of communication would actually...