Word: etiquettee
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¶ Spoke at the Washington convention of the Military Chaplains Association, and pulled a blooper in patriotic etiquette. When the Marine Band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the President and the chaplains to his left faced the music; the chaplains to his right faced the American flag. The President...
"Our Manners at Home and Abroad" is only one book in a large collection on etiquette, the 175-volume gift of Arthur Schlesinger Sr., professor of History. These beautifully handtooled, leather bound books cover changes in social customs from 1811 through Emily Post. Some representative titles are "Gems of Deportment...
The Premier, swallowing his indignation, then wrote: "Come to see me Wednesday," and sent the summons by messenger. But the messenger did not hand it personally to Juin, and the Marshal lost his temper at this breach of etiquette. "Another day," he retorted, "not tonight."
Years before Jung invented a "collective unconscious," Kipling was exploring, in Wireless, what he described as "the main-stream of subconscious thought common to all mankind." In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents...
But the Dink Stovers who went to Yale after World War II seemed unable to take Tap Day too seriously. Many found it humiliating for the hundreds of juniors rejected; some found the etiquette of the societies ludicrous (in theory, a member hearing his society's name mentioned among...