Word: genteelism
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...audience gets sickish, too. While there is much genteel jocularity in Ida Lublenski Ehrlich's play, its point can be seen several blocks away. When attained, it hardly seems worth panting after. Mrs. Fiske is her usual sparkling, irridescent self...
...clock tea on the terrace, water-gardens and misogynistic squires, etcetera, should enjoy Time Is Whispering. Three hundred and seventy-nine pages devoted almost exclusively to the rise and dedevelopment of a middle-aged love affair, sans fireworks or asterisks, between a retired Indian administrator and a gentle and genteel widow, may seem to those who prefer excitement in their reading a little too placid. A safe book to give an old-fashioned aunt...
...crying alone. He will lock himself in his own room, equip himself with smelling salts or a bottle of gin and a sponge, and have a good quiet weep. In the same way, he dislikes rising to high pitches of public hilarity. A reserved smile, or at most a genteel snicker is all he will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme of emotion, and when the lights surprise him in his emotional decollette he will find fellow victims in sufficient numbers to restore...
...March 4 Uncle Joe will be gone and Henry Cabot Lodge alone will remain to carry on the banner of the ideal. To the American people, however, the senior Senator from Massachusetts must perforce seem a little too genteel, too cold, too Back Bay to serve as an adequate trustee for the Old Guard tradition. They will long for the homely democracy of Mr. Cannon, so often expressed by those homely democratic symbols-Uncle Joe's black cigar and thumping quid...
...than an A.B. simply because they entered college without Latin. When generations of graduates have found that college training made life sufficiently more interesting as to warrant their sending their sons back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become a genteel trade school? But there need be no cause for alarm; at the end of his college career the average student will agree that the graduate schools should be increased to infinitum if need be, but that the college itself must be guarded from the commercialization of culture...