Word: decorums
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...Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria mori...
...House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...
This is the worst aspect of Spears' book: it does not compel you to refer to Auden's exciting verse itself. And even if Spears' reticence about the poet's life was conceived with a sense of decorum, the questions it leaves un-answered are much...
...read," except for The Infamous Army, which is regarded as the best novel about the Battle of Waterloo since Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In an age of prurience and pornography, Georgette Heyer's main appeal is in the faultless re-creation of a world of manners and decorum...
...villa to his favorite bar without even getting winded. Assuming a quick finish to the Fisher business, when would he become the fifth Mr. Taylor? "Probably about January 20." Why wait? "There will be a few days' delay arranging the wedding, and also for the sake of decorum-what little decorum is left...