Word: decorums
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...father keeps store in Bridgeport, and a dozen other youngsters between 15 and 18. Their stage job was to behave as they had behaved in real life the day before yesterday. They twittered on like starlings, discovering a sly pleasure in mocking their past youth. Their beauty, spontaneity and decorum charmed Manhattan audiences. The star of the proceedings was the author's beautiful, blonde, 17-year-old daughter Jean Rouverol...
...average cost of making a convert is placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...
This slender story tells of nothing more than the frustration of some small people, their dependence on chance, their suspicious efforts to avoid what is simplest and best for them, their loneliness and the simple decorum of their pleasures. In July 14 Director Clair's chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with...
...danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior was far over its mark...
...allowed to borrow directly from the Dominion instead of through the banks. Some businessmen complained that loans were hard to get, because they must be approved by bank officers in the East. Bankers denied this and representatives of several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan McGeer, K.C.. representing the Vancouver Trades & Labor Council, got the floor. For three and one-half hours he harangued the Commission, lambasted Canadian banking as a "credit racket'' which was strangling commercial life. He told the Commission that...