Word: chaperon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topics were notable by omission- labor and funded debt. The latter is significant since Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which will chaperon the report in the Senate, firmly believes that top-heavy funded debt is the roads' chief ailment. Knowing this and well remembering that the similar Splawn proposals died in Congress, the railroad industry last week was not too sanguine of legislative help. But Franklin Roosevelt still sat pretty, for if Congress again refuses to act he cannot be blamed...
...French Riviera to spend Christmas with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, sailed the Duchess' aunt and one-time chaperon, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman ("Aunt Bessie"), from Manhattan...
...worth of extra business in bed & board, maybe that much more in fun & liquor. Another $26,600 lurks behind invitations to "100 of the most popular debutantes" of the season. Those who join this "Fledgeling's Fling in Florida" must bring along mother or a chaperon...
Gilbert, according to his chaperon, William A. Ryan '40, halls from Texas, where he used to romp around and he poisonous. Since then he has had his poison machinery, fangs and all, extracted...
...Chapters: "Modern Man and Girl"; "Modern Exactions of Courtesy" (smoking, radio, punctuality, telephone manners); "Etiquette in Washington and State Capitals" (An Ambassador precedes the Chief Justice and a Cardinal comes before both); "American Neighborhood Customs" (rules for the hinterland); "Restaurant Etiquette"; "The Vanished Chaperon and Other Lost Conventions...