Word: etiquettee
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How long would the gentlemen keep their distance? Not much longer, thought the Osaka Prefectural Education Committee. Last week, with an eye to future emergencies, the committee issued a one-page Etiquette Concerning the Association Between Boys and Girls for all school kids. Principal pointers: "All associations between the two...
¶ Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really...
Twice each week during the fall, enthusiastic but undertrained House football teams clash in a series of games characterized by violence rather than any strict observance of gridiron etiquette. The games to decide an intramural champion are marred by a barrage of un-called penalties and totally unnecessary injuries. Ostensibly...
If we have failed in etiquette
To many Americans who don't know what they are talking about, cricket is a British eccentricity hardly less pansy than croquet. Americans condemn the game because it moves too leisurely, has too much ritualistic etiquette, and the players actually knock off for tea at 4 o'clock...