Word: gentlefolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen rehearsals went on simultaneously. Last week Covent Garden received one of the most elegant audiences in its history. Gentlefolk in tiaras and white ties took shortcuts through fruit lorries as fragrant as they were when Nell Gwyn peddled oranges there. Turbaned Eastern princes spanked themselves going through the Opera House's swingdoors. Tier upon tier of the gold & scarlet boxes* were full of distinguished Britons and foreigners as distinguished. Peppery old Sir Thomas Beecham waved his baton. The curtain rose on a storm-tossed ship, the first scene in Verdi's Otello. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli...
...ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil War melancholy but never from prickly heat...
...friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired, fired, rehired on various San Francisco newspapers, the skyrocket of Jack Neylan's career was touched off in 1910 when the Bulletin assigned him to cover Hiram Johnson's campaign for Governor...
Lady Frances Wentworth revealed the calm realism of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), an apt painter of the gentlefolk whose silks and satins rustled primly through the streets of pre-Revolutionary Boston. His Brass Crosby was technically more assured, exemplified his work as an official painter of important London figures. Not hanging was his famed portrait of the Knatchbull family which took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters...
...last week, to the joy and profit of a great many ladies and gentlemen. There are ladies who would not scramble to pick up chips worth 10,000 francs ($621) each. There are gentlemen who would not fight with each other over 10,000-franc chips. But no such gentlefolk seemed to be in Monte's Casino last week when the roulette-fagged croupier went crazy. No. 13 had just come up on the wheel he was spinning. Jumping up wild-eyed from his doughnut, he seized handfuls of 10,000 franc chips, flung them wildly all over...