Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated with exemplary decorum a Labor resolution calling for an inquiry into the propriety of Cabinet Ministers associating themselves in any way with corporations having contracts with the Government. Laborite Arthur Henderson alleged that Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain is associated with at least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above...
Next day, cheered by the hundreds of Mohammedans resident at Paris, Mulai Yusef dedicated the first Mosque to be erected in France. Gazing proudly about he remarked with satisfaction that all women present were veiled, conducted themselves with decorum...
...days before the most exalted of these, John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre. Boats and factories from Jersey City to Brooklyn tied down their whistles. The legate was receiving a Metropolitan welcome...
...stage, one is reminded that this is a musical comedy after all. Love shines in his bold young eyes. He is the conventional hero every inch. Perhaps this is inevitable. Perhaps this is inevitable. Perhaps an audience expects its here to say nothing that is not dignity and decorum...
Yesterday, just at dusk, the Sophomore class of 1863 assembled with proper decorum, to perform the funeral obsequies of the football...