Word: genteelisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who have long expected a visit, for Eastbourne is a spa where wealthy Britons in the afternoon of life retire to await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne. Yet, last week, all of Britain was abuzz with the awful speculation that skulking, sudden death had forced its way into Eastbourne...
...hilariously shifting from an invalid's helplessness to an athlete's violence. But out of the mouth of farce-like cold water from the mouth of a fountain gargoyle-flows a stream of cold wisdom. Anouilh uses the coarse, truthful exaggerations of caricature deliberately to offset the genteel evasions of life painted in watercolor. The general's foundling son may just be the latest in a long Gilbertian line; but the Jostling father, the middle-aged satyr with his subaltern dreams, who finds it harder to grow older because he has never really grown up, is part...
Chase distinguishes the Harvard graduate from the Yale or Princeton product, declaring that he "is sure to have carried away with him a trace of genteel bohemianism and a slight distaste for the boosting, back-slapping, and self-ingratiating activities" of the "practical" professions...
...family members and close friends-ate a leisurely buffet dinner, then settled back to watch the returns on television. Even when Cam paign Manager James A. Finnegan came in at 10:40 p.m. to confirm what had already become obvious, there was no change in the calm, genteel atmosphere. Shortly after midnight, Adlai Stevenson picked up a carefully drafted statement, and for the second time in four years made his way to the microphones to concede to Dwight Eisenhower...
Sophisticated Arthritis.' In the U.S. there are 11 million people who have one form or another of the arthritis group of diseases-what grandma called her "rheumatiz," the genteel called rheumatism, and the pseudo-sophisticated now call arthritis. Each year, more than 300,000 people are made temporarily unemployable for varying periods by rheumatic diseases, and many of them become rheumatic invalids...