Word: genteelism
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...Genteel Subscribee...
Three issues "in President Lowell's tenure" were cited as having been handled in hush: intellectual freedom of the faculty, exclusion of Jews and making Harvard "safe for the genteel...
...Canton was quiet. The town's respectable dance place, the "Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...Genteel Lady!-Esther Forbes ($2). A charming, witty, philosophical comedy of mid-Bostonian manners...
Georges Carpentier was once a great boxer. Slender and genteel, he lambasted British plug-uglies in Paris sporting clubs; and proved that although he wore an orchid in the evenings and received perfumed notes in the mornings he could hit hard and dodge adroitly. Last week for nine seconds Carpentier lay on his face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas...