Word: etiquettee
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In the August issue of the Forum, Frederick S. Hoppin gives an able description of balloon jumping, looks into the future: "Why should we not in time perfect a moderate sized knapsack filled with some highly volatile non-inflammable gas which, strapped comfortably to our back, would be able to...
Sirs: The following are extracts from newspaper accounts of the golf classic played at the Oakmont Country Club course this week. . . . "As Armour was about to drive, a woman spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked...
Imperious Etiquette. One would suppose that General Baron Byng of Vimy, World War hero and recent Governor General of Canada, would be welcome at any banquet. Yet he was excluded last week from the State Dinner tendered to President Doumergue by Their Majesties.
He was excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his...
It must be difficult indeed for a prince to know what is expected of him now that, fashions in royal etiquette have become in places altered and in places done away with altogether. A few slips may not today be sufficient cause for a declaration of war, but they leave...