Word: decorums
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Craig is now regarded as a model of decorum, but there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
...Senate, in a worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut off the Dixiecrat filibuster by cloture, not in order to get a vote on FEPC itself but just to get to the first step: a vote on a motion to bring the bill to the floor...
More middlebrows than highbrows have applauded Viereck's efforts, but Terror and Decorum, his first book of more-or-less straightforward verse, won him a Pulitzer Prize last year. Strike Through the Mask!, his second, is as motley a product as Viereck's prizewinner, ranges from collegiate cacklings to fine and often funny flights of fancy. Conservative, not to say eclectic in form, it has more zest than grace...
Present grad school rules contain five provisions, the first four dealing mainly with the maintenance of "order and decorum" in the dormitories. It is the fifth section, concerning entertainment privileges, which is now under Council scrutiny...
...steps was a sharpening of the statute on Desacato, disrespect for established authority. The old law made it illegal to offend the office of President, Vice President or federal justice. The new amendment provides punishments up to three years' imprisonment for offending the personal "dignity or decorum" of a public functionary...