Word: genteelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many weeks owners of genteel geisha houses in the vicinity of Tokyo have suffered robberies. Cash boxes were rifled, many of the young ladies' valuables were stolen. The geisha houses complained bitterly...
During the past six weeks Punch has published a few genteel quips on electioneering, a few more about "flapper voters," a few jokes based on heckling in mass meetings. Beyond that there has been no reference to the elections...
...playing Glenna Collett she decided to play no more for championship golf cups. It made no difference to her that Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and then Mlle. Manette le Blan thereafter won the British Ladies' Title. Joyce Wethered, whose impersonality sometimes is tantamount to genteel insolence, plays golf for amusement and crowds do not amuse her. But last week on St. Andrew's course in Scotland she played again for a championship. Again she met Glenna Collett, again she defeated her. Thus the British Woman's championship cup preserved its distinction of never having been...
...friends to make such gifts a program has been worked out so that subscriptions may be made payable over a period of five years. . . ." Such big-figured talk dismayed most young alumnae-solicitors with modest-salaried brothers and husbands. But they set bravely to work for the cause of genteel education. To elicit contributions they prepared an inventory of Spence's educational assets in terms of the teachers who helped make Spence famous. Miss Grace A. McElroy, who used to be Miss Spence's secretary and later (with Miss Miller) an associate principal, was resigning and had been...
...with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young men in business and about town did not go about in such Eskimoish gear. He probably felt it was a bit rah-rah. Then somebody said "collegiate." That ended it, and it began to give way to the more genteel black derby and the chesterfield...