Word: decorums
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...rooms from Haverhill, Mass., furnished in that suave and hardy decorum that obtained when shipowners sat smoking in them, seeing in smoke their clippers beat round the Horn, their East Indiamen, under a cloudy tower of sail, treading the huddle of the seas...
...entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat. Presently, he must have entered, too, into the life of the world, as his The Salamander bears witness. The F. Scott Fitzgerald of his generation, he has maintained his ability to report manners and customs with humor, combined with insight and decorum as his new novel Blue Blood* proves...
...brute strength. If comparison is made with other sports, boxing is certainly to be preferred to wrestling and is less dangerous than football. But its organization on an intercollegiate basis offers inherent difficulties as exemplified by the recent ruling of Yale authorities that unless cheering was conducted with more decorum no spectators would be allowed at collegiate bouts...
...sanctuary still remains, however, into which too evident efficiency, watchful attendants and blazing lights have not intruded. In the Union Library there are good books, new as well as old: there are comfortable chairs in which one may stretch out unhampered by decorum; books which are always in use at Widener can be found free here; and smoking is quite in order...
...fellow, stands a foot or so above the Prince, but this disharmony in sizes has not prevented a cordial fellowship. This is quite in line with the none too staid disposition of the heir to the British crown, a disposition which is said to distress and shock the great decorum of the royalty, aristocracy, middle class and working class of England...