Word: genteelness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some genteel mate swapping is suggested, and Rabbit finds himself in a cabin with a woman he does not desire. He stalls in the bathroom, examining the contents of the medicine chest: "He wonders whatever happened to Ipana and what was it Consumer Reports had to say about toothpastes a few issues back...
...homeless," the last being considered itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been irrecoverably lost. In 1902 the genteel architect-writer Joy Wheeler Dowd wrote sweetly: "Every man or woman hopes one day to realize his or her particular dream of home." It did not have to be a Newport "cottage" or the Baths of Diocletian. It was a small internal grandeur that counted, the sense of refuge...
...been translated into 18 languages. It is easy to see why. Against a backdrop of the lush Dorset landscape, two young lovers scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with her-and, when Sarah mysteriously abandons him, to live with her memory...
When Dashiell Hammett returned from World War I--almost completely disabled with tuberculosis--detective fiction was still a relatively new, and relatively genteel thing. The roots of the form don't go back very far in American literature. It was Poe whose "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," started the whol thing in 1841. This was the first of three stories Poe was to write which featured C. Auguste Dupin, an amateur investigator who solved crimes through an extraordinary talent for analytic thinking. The stories were not terribly popular in the United States; indeed, Poe himself was not very popular...
...that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...