Word: gentility
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...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...
Inquiries were instituted into the past of M. Robischon. He was a retired business man who dabbled in literature as a hobby. He is very rich. Yes, he was the originator of the Flaubert prize! " C'est très gentil," remarked the Latin Quarter contemptuously...
...other Moliere plays that have already been performed by the Cercle Francais are "Les Precieuses Ridicules," "Le Bourgeois Gentil homme," "Le Mariage Force," and "Les Fourberis de Scapin...