Word: decorums
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...Court has occurred than the President's suggestion last year that all Justices over 70 had outlived their usefulness. The suggestion made Louis Brandeis angry enough to give his approval, along with Conservative Willis Van Devanter, when the Chief Justice condemned the plan as roundly as judicial decorum would permit in a statement to the effect that increasing the personnel of the Court would not increase its efficiency...
...Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
...despite the fact that the Freshman who wrote the letter missed the boat as far as sizing up the point of the meeting, it does appear that his feelings were hurt--and perhaps others felt the same way--by what they thought was a breach of decorum, or at least a sin against good taste, by the very undergraduate leaders whom they had come to college hoping to respect. This loss of respect for Harvard's leaders must have been disillusioning. Loss of respect for the leaders of society in general always seems to make for bitterness in the hearts...
Last week, and for a fortnight before, Editor Dawson's volunteer correspondents were engaged in a controversy moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose...
...Gibsons' chief contributions to that storied region's ecology were a daughter Charlotte whom they reared with pre-War decorum and ignorance of life's facts...