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Running off its peace meeting with dignity and decorum that belie the name of "strike", the Student Union's Peace Committee can at last take credit for raising Harvard pacifistic celebrations to the level of reason and respectability. An attitude of calm and mature deliberation held sway in Sanders Theatre yesterday which marks a decided improvement over the late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate...
...this time Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria went about Paris with utmost decorum, accepted his entourage of detectives with no effort either to entertain or to elude them, and moved Parisian Bulgarians to cry: "Every inch a Tsar! Long live His Majesty...
Well prepared for the occasion, he had brought along mimeographed copies of his formula. Soon as he finished talking, the 3,000 dentists leaped from their seats to cheer and yell, rushed for copies of the formula, fought, shoved, elbowed their way forward. Ushers, finally despairing of decorum, saved their skins by heaving handfuls of the copies over the heads of the grabbing dentists...
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...
Readers will remember not so much the Poor Butterfly story as the blossomy scenes it hovers over: the floating teahouse in the bay; the teacher, the day after the earthquake, holding her class in decorum in the field next to the ruined schoolhouse; the geisha delighting her audience by the entire gamut of tears; the hotel-keeper's children playing gravely with falling petals; the play, lasting from noon until midnight, in which the actors pantomimed and the voices came from the wings; the student serenely explaining that kissing was "not very high-class love...