Word: decorums
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...Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make up some of the city's oldest fortunes...
Further outbreaks of political fervor led the CRIMSON and the Student Council to ask for decorum in the 1904 and 1908 demonstration for favorite son Teddy Roosevelt '80 and W. H. Taft. Ralliers left their feet in 1912, however, and piled into flivvers for the first "flying" rallies--all for the Progressive Party and T. R. But T. R.'s Harvard chances were damaged by President Eliot's declaration for Woodrow Wilson, who wound up with 735 College votes, compared to 475 for T. R. and 365 for Taft...
...memorial was the Transept. Until after the first few years of the present century it had the aspect of a sanctuary. Those who passed through it removed their hats, and the Corporation, in granting the use of Sanders Theater, were careful to protect it from breaches of dignity and decorum. When, after an absence from the University for twenty-four years, I first attended a concert in Sanders I was surprised to see receptacles for cigarette ashes in the Transept; a chattering throng such as fills the lobby of a theater between the acts. Harvard men of my time were...
...self-contained creations of literature. But it has a context, and the context enriches it. In reprinting Gulliver's Travels entire for this "portable" edition, Editor Van Doren has surrounded it with earlier and later examples of the prose of Jonathan Swift-a prose that for polished, deadly decorum and energy in satire no writer has ever equaled. Van Doren's introduction also supplies the chief facts about the battles -literary and political-in which Swift fought with all his gall...
...several centuries. Simon is decidedly hostile to modern life: "I look back to 1912 as the highest point of civilization, from which we have been steadily retrogressing ever since." Together with some mildly romantic young folk, Mrs. Brocken and her brother-in-law manage to live in pleasant decorum, with each member of the household sensible enough to mind his own business and respect the others' peculiarities...