Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly the newsvendors thought this pleasantry excruciating. When decorum was at last restored. Lord Lee said, in dead earnest: "It would be foolish to pretend that at this moment all is as well as it should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
Skupshtina Battle. In the Skupshtina, Deputies of the Opposition irretrievably transgressed decorum by tearing the tops off their desks and flailing them to matchwood, while they screamed at Government leaders "Resign! Resign! COWARDS, Traitors, MURDERERS...
...devoted Son of the Church, Count Dalla Torre conducts L'Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
...President Frank's self-defense was even worse than his first action. . . . He excused himself by saying the matter was one of decorum rather than free speech...