Word: savoir
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Meanwhile, Wellesley's trustees did some choosing, too. In the 18 months since stately old President Ellen Fitz Pendleton had announced that she would like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...
...present one of these hopeless cases has struggled through 18 private lessons to become quite a finished individual performer. But, alas, he is not always in seclusion, and in the company of others, any "savoir faire" he may have acquired is immediately lost and he becomes flustered. In this state, a scrimmage or even the lightess contact work with a neighboring couple invariably disillusions one more aspirant to fame, Hollywood, and Ginger Rogers...
...broke with the Unitarians, established his own independent Community Church. While giving Dr. Holmes full marks for nobility of purpose, pragmatic spectators got a strong whiff of the parsonage in If This Be Treason's incorrigible unreality. Show folk credited the play with about as much dramatic savoir-faire as a Sunday School cantata. Even his most devoted parishioners could not find much novelty in Dr. Holmes's and Collaborator Lawrence's dialog. Retorts President Gordon (McKay Morns, the drama's best-looking bald man) to his Secretary of State, who has just called...
...tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year ago, spends his spare time imitating Bing Crosby or the Mills Brothers, drinks nothing stronger than milk. On the court, the quality that marks his game is the one in which he sometimes seems most lacking elsewhere -savoir-faire. The quality which he will need most if he is to develop into a Class A tennis champion is confidence, and his demeanor this summer indicates that he is rapidly acquiring it. In the final at Newport, Shields returned a first serve by mistake and then courteously called: "Take two. . . ." Replied...
With his worldly smile, his instinctive savoir faire when fashions followed each other with bewildering rapidity, he made it possible for some of the piquancy of the Parisian world to trickle through the staid, stuffy circles of English aristocracy, justly rating TIME'S relegation to "dilettante Mayfair," but Edward VII lives in the hearts of lovers of good living and the archives of great cookery. Chefs all over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion...