Word: indecorum
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...DEAD PRESIDENTS COULD SMILE IN THEIR GRAVES, James Madison would be beaming. Nearly 203 years after the fourth President proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise, a requisite 38 states have agreed that there is "a seeming indecorum," as Madison contended, in the power to increase one's own salary. Last week four states, prompted by public outrage over the Senate's 1991 midnight pay hike and other Capitol Hill scandals, ratified the amendment, which Madison had sought as part of what became the original Bill of Rights. While the provision does...
...lectern as a pulpit for deriding the president and subjecting him to mockery. It leaves the students in a position where they must take a partisan stance, even it that be unconcious. And the total effect of action here is to contribute to unruliness, disrespect and worst of all indecorum...
...Solution? Last week, with circulation past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...
...rooms in the cavernous interior of the London Times citadel off the Thames embankment. The presses of the Thunderer now print Stars & Stripes -much to the Times's befuddlement. Like all U.S. journalists, S & Sers work in their shirtsleeves. They eat coatless in the austere Times restaurant. Such indecorum puzzles Times newsmen...
...Philharmonic began as a cooperative in which each member invested $25; first season's take was $15 apiece. The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language." In 1865 the orchestra raised some eyebrows by hiring a conductor, Karl Bergmann, at the whopping salary of $1,000 a year. When Edwin Booth declaimed with the Philharmonic (in Schumann's Manfred), the musicians gave him a silver vase; the actor countered by presenting Conductor Bergmann with an aluminum baton (then more costly than silver) from Tiffany...