Word: decorums
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...school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called him, read Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister...
After long days of earnest decorum the harsh, bitter squalls of politics rolled into the quiet chamber where 26 U.S. Senators were considering high policy and General MacArthur. The witness was General of the Army Omar Bradley, five-star chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, senior Republican of the Foreign Relations Committee, was pressing him to remember who had called first to tell him that President Truman "was concerned about some of the public statements made by General MacArthur." Said Wiley, sarcastically: "This was an unusual occurrence in your little life...
...amazing days, Douglas MacArthur sat in the center of the stage to make his case against the foreign policy of his Commander in Chief. The issues were as grave as any in the nation's history, and as politically combustible, but witness and questioners responded with fairness and decorum. What might have been dangerous to the nation was not; in fact, the U.S. was given a chance, in a deadly earnest game of Questions & Answers, to appraise, with more facts than it ever had before, the difficult decisions to be taken...
...week's end, Lilli Palmer's gamble on decorum and literacy seemed to be paying off. The New York Times found her 15-minute show "completely beguiling" and Sponsor Pond's was hurriedly lining up other stations to put her show on the CBS network. Lilli, claiming to be "so relieved," admitted: "I was terrified I was just going to be another chattering dame on television...
What the university needed, said he, was a traditional Lovers' Lane-a well-supervised Romance Road, lined with benches for convenience and street lamps for decorum. Some students wanted to know just how much supervision the professor was calling for. But the student council liked the idea. As things stood now, complained the council president, campus cops were prowling about like the Gestapo, and that was the wrong emphasis. "We're [the council] more interested in preventing students from going off the deep end than lying in wait for them...