Word: indecorum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...