Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While in Washington last week lawyers with unaristocratic names fired questions at J. P. Morgan and Thomas W. Lament in gangster argot (see p. 12), in London there was decorum and courtesy as the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms examined great armament tycoons...
Announcements of impending events in the world of music and the dance, advance information on programmatic matters and other available tid-bits of aesthetic interest will be the weekly fare of this budding column. It will endeavor to present, honestly and with decorum, such advance "dope" as it hopes will interest local devotees of Music...
...optimistic, mild-mannered gentleman with red-gold hair and a lofty brow, Judge Hoyt divides his time between a Hudson River estate and a Georgia pecan plantation, likes books, privacy and decorum. Last week when a tactless newshawk reminded him of his prize-winning predictions for Publisher Hearst, the new Alcohol Administrator declared with some feeling: "Whatever I wrote about the liquor problem in 1929 is water under the bridge, and I don't want to talk about...
...West Point had two good reasons for entrusting the social future of the U. S. Army to slim, white-haired George Roberts and his dark-haired, sparkly-eyed wife. The Roberts' had the endorsement of the Oklahoma Military Academy and they were as great sticklers for strict ballroom decorum as "Madame" Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee...
...first year, he keeps on plodding around with the "elephant squad" until he can. Dancing Master Vizay-"The Professor" to his charges-spent four months every year at the Academy, where his father had taught dancing before him, was a stickler for erect carriage, measured glide and strict ballroom decorum. Off duty, he was a great favorite with the Point's baseball fans. His encyclopedic knowledge of the affairs of the major leagues complemented an equally amazing acquaintance with vital statistics of the American Association. ''The Professor" was for many years during the summer months the road...