Word: decorums
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...days before the most exalted of these, John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre. Boats and factories from Jersey City to Brooklyn tied down their whistles. The legate was receiving a Metropolitan welcome...
...stage, one is reminded that this is a musical comedy after all. Love shines in his bold young eyes. He is the conventional hero every inch. Perhaps this is inevitable. Perhaps this is inevitable. Perhaps an audience expects its here to say nothing that is not dignity and decorum...
Yesterday, just at dusk, the Sophomore class of 1863 assembled with proper decorum, to perform the funeral obsequies of the football...
...Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...
...cannot be accused of monotony. A change from tropical, blazing heat to the usual coolness of a New England spring is no slight feat for a single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...