Word: decorums
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...middle-of-the-roader in domestic affairs, Ruiz Cortines is expected to carry forward Alemán's big program of strenuous industrial expansion, but with more decorum, stability, efficiency-and less tolerance of corruption. He is a frequent, admiring visitor to the U.S. "I love to stroll in the streets of New York," he says, "lost among 8,000,000 people. There, one is just an atom." He intends to continue Mexico's policy of close friendship with the big neighbor to the north...
Down with Dynasties. With prosperity, a new decorum settled on Batista. His table manners improved, he got a tailor and a manicurist, acquired millionaire friends and some notions of good taste. Visiting Washington in 1938, he found out that his official host, Chief of Staff General Malin Craig, usually wore just two decorations. Tossing his own beribboned tunic to an aide, he roared: "Rip off all but the two top rows...
...judge regards women with indulgence and treats them with decorum, but he takes them with entire seriousness only in their spheres as wives and mothers. He would no more interfere with his wife's household or garden than she would attempt to influence his judicial decisions. They have conducted a successful marriage through 40 years of mutual regard for boundary lines, with only superficial border clashes from which the judge retires mournfully appealing to high heaven and abstract reason. His relations with his mother, who is 93, are as affectionate as were those with his father, but quite different...
...those who wish to preserve some social decorum, the still looks especially well when finished off with a crocodile skin cover. Monograms are in style...
...film is a field day for Actor Guinness, who manages to combine jaunty evildoing with an outward show of probity and decorum. His broaching of his plot to Stanley Holloway, a manufacturer with the soul of an artist, is a masterpiece of delicate suggestion without a single incriminating word spoken. With Holloway safely in his pocket, Guinness displays equal ingenuity in recruiting two mobsters to handle the messier details of his plan...