Word: genteeling
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Author Norris is a prolific rather than a pretty writer, a searcher for the genteel rather than the just word. For "pimple" he writes "eruption"; for "naked," "nude"; for "died," "expired...
...policemen are as genteel as tall, bland Thomas Wentworth Russell, whose family (the Dukes of Bedford) have been potent in British politics almost continuously since Henry VIII. Few policemen are as magnificent, for his white dress tunic with its glittering scimitar is splattered with stars and medals. Few policemen are busier, for Thomas Wentworth Russell is not only Chief of Cairo's police, but spends much of his time as Director of the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau of Egypt, a position equivalent to that of world's chief narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...this, the first number of The Harvard Critic, the editors give as the principal reason for the establishment of a new medium of student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...
Author Morley has kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...