Word: decorous
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...reception in the palatial red brick Government House. During the Japanese occupation, Government House furniture, along with the habit of obedience to British rule, had disappeared. For the party, Sir Hubert's aides scouted up some furniture looted by the Japanese. The guests were fascinated by the decor. Burman leaders wandered about Sir Hubert's rooms pointing to chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north, and east borders of British Burma and claimed the country where the Chins, Shans, Kachins, Nagas...
Professor Hansen, long famed as America's foremost exponent of the governmental policies derived from the "new economics" of Britain's John Maynard Keynes, still carries on his business at the same old stand. This time, however, he has presented his wares with both a new external decor and a significant number of changes in the internal mechanism. The key element in his program for preventing eatastrophic booms and busts remains the Federal government, but an inventory of its armory of weapons against depression and unemployment reveals a more diversified and better balanced set of techniques...
...gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
...huge green waves, lashed by some abysmal fury, reared up and blotted the sky from view. They seemed about to crash into the quiet, pleasant room, threatening to shatter the fragile decor, engulf the politely conversing statesmen...
Said Paris-Presse: "What human voice could speak in that titanic decor as the images flew! After the showing, the delegates returned to Luxembourg Palace, where fragile peace struggles to be born. . . ." The Paris-Matin: "We can't keep ourselves from, thinking of the Apocalypse. It is overwhelming. . . The delegates, despite their diplomatic lack of reaction, were overwhelmed...