Word: decorums
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Mann's familiar style supports his efforts as well as ever. There is the firm German repetition of motif. We are constantly reminded of Krull's nakedness and his false drapery of forms and decorum. His costumes--which bolstered his youthful fancies--become foreign tongues and social manners. His adaptability constantly recurs so that we even expect him to talk like a paleontologist within minutes after meeting...
...them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose...
...first, it looked as if New Yorkers were in for a slightly tedious, thoroughly respectable campaign for governor this year. On their records Republican Candidate Irving Ives and Democratic Candidate Averell Harriman could be expected to explore the issues with scholarly precision and to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum. Things didn't work out like that; by last week the campaign was not very respectable...
Ever since the middle of the war, well behaved Londoners have patiently queued at recognized bus stops to await their chance, in order and decorum. To its friends, queueing up is a symbol of British fair play; to its enemies, a sign of genteel regimentation typical of the new British welfare state. Either way, only the vulgarest opportunists ever sought to bypass the queue by climbing aboard the open rear platform of a halted bus between stops. Last week, however, once respectable middle-aged businessmen and elderly ladies were kiting after stopped buses like hounds on the scent...
...hectic week ended, Governor Crosby, a candidate for the full Senate term, summed up the situation. The "bitterly unfortunate" state election law, he said, had forced Nebraskans to act as though they were "lacking in decorum...