Word: indecorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum. Pompously the Three Regents of Rumania, who reign for Boy King Mihai, bade Peasant Maniu welcome and requested him to take steps to form a Cabinet...
...pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time of mental, moral and physical pattern and similarity he stood for originality and uniqueness. That...
...Louis. It is not good manners to yell at a tennis match-not etiquette to jostle ladies in the stands, to jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third...