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...banners, at least 35 feet long and in three colors, complete with spray-painted candy canes was touching. "Nick Wurf, you now seem couth, Merry Christmas from Duluth...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Return to Duluth | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

...daughter of a society photographer, Stewart is a woman with a mission, a crusader for couth. More than 700 department stores in 43 U.S. cities are franchised to conduct her etiquette training for children, and over the past 15 years, 160,000 clumsy charges have been coached in Marjabelle's method. The six one-hour sessions plus a seventh for graduation ceremonies, which cost up to $65, exist in spots as scattered as Little Rock, Ark., Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Tyler, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Crusader for Couth | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...Muppets grow ever more couth. First they danced Swine Lake with Ballet Superstar Rudolf Nureyev. Now, on Nov. 12, they will sing Pigoletto with the incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the two famous divas. "She may be a pig," says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...radio and TV commercials) proved not to be a major factor. Even though Moynihan banged his head and wrenched his neck when his small plane hit an air pocket, and had to spend three precious days recuperating, he easily made up the lost time. For his part, the normally couth and courteous Buckley turned tiger, depicting Moynihan as a fuzzy-minded liberal professor whose wild spending schemes would cost wage-earning families of four $63 a week in new taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From an Irish Pat to a Dixy Lee | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...national resource in the New York Times Book Review, he declared a pox on New York City's street life and "twice breathed air," and announced that at the age of 69 he was exiling himself to London. Two years later Perelman was back, grumbling about "too much couth" and the lack of seeds in British rye bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Idiom Savant | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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