Word: genteelism
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...regular fans returned to their favorite spa. Once again hotels and restaurants are jammed with people who seem to have leaped straight out of New Yorker cartoons, and the jewel thieves who shadow the wealthy have put in their usual appearance. It would seem that nothing could disturb these genteel August rites...
...anything. Under Fizzlers, terms whose time has not yet come, he lists Americaid, one of 22 names proposed by the Nixon Administration in 1972 as a replacement for welfare. And chirtonsor, a euphemism for barber, which won the votes of 3,000 barbers in 1924. And electrolethe, a more genteel version of electric chair. There is even a word, logodaedaly, for "the capricious coining of words...
...popularity contests, but Dershowitz's grating nebbish image must have lost his some cases and persuasive appeal. The Best Defense's perfunctory jibes at press-conference attorneys seem to bely Dershowitz's own legal behavior. The contradiction muddles the issue of just whether "the best defense" in the genteel world of American law has a place for grand-standers like himself...
What environments shaped Mumford? As he tells it, a procession of boyhood New York apartments so dark and cluttered, in the late Victorian style, that he acquired an early appreciation of the austere forms of 20th century architecture. With affectionate detail he recalls his maverick mother, a shabby-genteel domestic in the house of a New York lawyer, who met the man's nephew and bore young Lewis out of wedlock. The boy's German grandfather, a retired headwaiter at Delmonico's, became the dominant figure of Mumford's early years, taking him on long walks...
...Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent in American journalism. Using his position to criticize as well as to nurture reporters, Lyons called for "a bold press" when covering politicians, but "a decently restrained press...