Word: etiquettee
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Already some of his liberal friends are turning against him. Some State Department veterans see Kissinger's acceptance of the taps on his aides as a sad breach of both manners and tradition. Those who believe that even tapping must be subject to a certain etiquette are dismayed by...
All the nuances of custom, dress and etiquette are preserved on those brilliantly colored and gilded scraps of paper. An 18th century rajah, ensconced on a swing, conducts an orchestra of stiffly profiled girls against the beautifully austere background of his black and white marble palace (see color page); a...
- An elaborate etiquette prevails at supermarkets. Consumers are encouraged to squeeze the white bread and forbidden to squeeze toilet tissue. They are also urged to look for chickens by name, beef by price and coffee by reputation.
When San Furanshisuko Saberyusu, as the Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one...
So would a minor mistake be corrected in 1930. But a few years later, the problems were no longer minor and the tone of the comment books was transposed into a major key. The man who explained the etiquette of High Table in 1930 might be surprised to find, two...