Word: gentility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle with love for the man! . . . The public-look at your public, there in the galleries too." Then she burst into gay applause: "C'est gentil, ça!" Prowling around, never sitting down, the woman in white went on for three hours, abruptly dismissing one group of singers to call up another, suddenly feigning vexation that the time had passed so quickly...
...world's, that there are no branches of Harvard's Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club in Germany. We do not know the life history of the estimable Michael, but we suspect him of having combined the best qualities of a bellicose pacifist with those of a "parfit gentil knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast...
Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme by Conductor Clemens Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A Habsburg turned conductor gives keen edge to music of a rare, satirical cast...
...hard-pouf, pouf, it was nothing at all! . . . I do not think anyone ever made $25,000 more easily. . . . The reception we received here was marvelous! Never has anyone so generously . . . greeted us, not even in New York. . . . I wish to give thanks to these Dallas people-'tres gentil...