Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous to raise the famed old cry of "I spy!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose at 3 : 5 7 p.m. and observed...
...this year, nothing is quite the same. The Yard Concerts were more beautiful, more impression. Vag choked up more and sang with more feeling less boisterousness. At the Spring Dance, getting drunk was out. Instead it seemed proper to act with more decorum, more tenderness to The Girl. And she seemed impressed with the new regime. Exams this year they were to be prepared, not just crammed in two days before. Widener and Memorial Church they were suddenly things to look at with a new gaze. The river--it became a place to sit quietly and dream, no longer merely...
...them cant about decorum...
...from being camera shy, the Dionnes seem a shade jaded by acting. One or two of them usually appear to be dreaming. The others engage in deplorably obvious scene stealing, from each other as well as the adults in the cast. The Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling...
What made Mr. Hughes's generalization noteworthy was a set of special circumstances which caused Washington gossips to surmise that it was actually a most uncharacteristic breach of judicial decorum. The circumstances...