Word: letitia
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...help is on the way. Authors George Mazzei, 42, and Letitia Baldrige, 56, are stepping into the breach of good taste with two books that offer advice on everything from how to make a strategic retreat after a sexual advance to how to handle hard rock and soft drugs at the office Christmas party...
Driving back, it was dark and Alan recited from Browning's Sordello... The rest is history. I made an honest man of him two days later by the grave of a certain Letitia Forbes (1877-1879). My all but vanished menses made it into a kosher defloration. Alan was a miracle. Five times, Susan! And, naturally, he had memorized the Kama Sutra...
...Letitia Peplau, a UCLA psychologist who has conducted research on loneliness among college freshmen, cites one last freshman difficulty unique to students at exclusive private colleges like Harvard. "At Harvard," Peplau says, "most people are leaving home to go to school. Here at UCLA, a great many students live in the area and come right in with their whole gang from high school. There's no social transition for them...
Despite his slow Western drawl, Baldrige, 58, son of a Nebraska Congressman, embodies the Eastern Establishment that many Reagan backers distrust. He is a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of 1943) and the brother of Author Letitia Baldrige, who was Jacqueline Kennedy's White House social secretary...
...makyth man, according to the ancient English axiom. However, it is woman who makyth manners, a behavioral frontier that has traditionally been too sensitive to be guarded by men. From Chaucer's Wife of Bath through Godey's Lady's Book, Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt and Letitia Baldrige, the doyennes of decorum have defined and refined social norms to the point at which a boilermaker in Metropolis, Ill., knows (from his wife) that it is O.K. to eat bacon with his fingers, while french fries should be conveyed by a fork...