Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FarewelL At Victoria Station the King-Emperor and his Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal...
...furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from decorum, went last week Edward of Wales...
...master of the quartets and the symphony, will be discussed by Professor Hill in the Music Building at 12 o'clock. Hayda, who was beloved by the Viennese for his dainty and melodious operas, new as known as the last of the 18th Century realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song. The lecture on the life...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans at all times for democracy, see in this primativism an accute absense of decorum...