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Word: condã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE?by the Editors of Vogue?Cond?? Nast ($4.00). No doubt we have improved somewhat since the days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man in Zoo* | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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