Word: decorums
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Boys are the chief victims. A Manhattan doctor explained that more boys than girls catch ringworm "because boys have short hair and scuffle more." Girls are protected by long hair and decorum...
...smoker the other evening. Although a model of decorum and good clean fun, there was an atmosphere of festive gaiety enjoyed by all in attendance. The company's talent been to be uncovered. Much more is expected for our next, now that the ice is broke (Ogden Nash's advice on ice breaking "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
Atlantic City is not what she used to be. The annual Miss America contest last week was conducted so genteelly, with such oppressive decorum, dignity and délicatesse that many a customer, innocently seeking foofaraw and the stimulating sight of rows of good-looking legs, finally wandered off to drown his disappointment...
Although some of the other girls drew more gallery whistles, the decorum-conscious judges chose decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half...
Eckstein first saw Japan on the day the American Exclusion Act went into effect. He spent his first night with a Japanese family in the home of a surgeon. The surgeon's Western education had not altered the decorum, the grace, the rigid loveliness of his family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine...