Word: etiquettee
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Harvard's Higginson Professor of History, one of the country's leading chroniclers of its social and cultural growth, has east 75 pages of light on a fascinating phase of American striving: the etiquette book. Maintaining that "nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," Mr. Schlesiner...
Still in the Army, the little man wanted to be allowed to register and attend classes till he returned to his employers for final separation. No vet was he and no civilian, but the hospitable dean saw fit to stretch a point and in a gesture of good will extended...
Mrs. Post's point illustrates my statement that she attempts to keep the 18th Century traditions alive in these times which can hardy be called similar. She stands for drinking tea gracefully-I suppose with the pinky raised. Tell Emily I stand for more drooling, less fancy "etiquette," and...
"The officers lounged all day in the sacrosanct wardroom. They kept their hats on in the wardroom, a scandalous violation of naval etiquette. Some of them even sat with their feet on the tables. None of them seemed to do any work. . . . Coarse, extramarital exploits were discussed openly at the...
Q. Is there any special etiquette about drinking?