Word: etiquet
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...Afghans are probably the world's most violent people. They kill strangers for a small breach of etiquet. When Afghan kings really dislike a man, they boil him in oil or strangle him with chains. The only possessions an Afghan keeps clean are his rifle, his sling of cartridges, his short dagger and his bayonet sword...
...jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love platonically and when disappointed, sometimes lose their appetite, develop consumption...
...State Department has a secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations are equally guilty of espionage, there is in Europe a definite technique and etiquet about arresting a foreign spy in peace time. It is not polite to charge a friendly nation with direct complicity. Secret service agents talk largely about "international spy rings," give a series of conflicting but highly colorful stories to excited reporters, arrest a number of other suspects of different nationalities...
...cathedral was tremulous with the yellow light of a thousand candles. Years dead is Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun of France...
Life in Wilhelm Hohenzollern's 30-acre realm of Doom in Holland is always stiff with etiquet. A Court Gazette tells the miniscule doings of the court, gives notice two weeks in advance of those whom the onetime Kaiser has graciously agreed to receive. When Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt's news-nosing son "Neely" tried to crash the ex-Kaiser's presence last spring, he was repulsed with the stiff story that he had not been Gazetted two weeks in advance. But life at Doom is terribly sleepy. In the ivied main palace and the outlying smaller...