Word: manneredness
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Long before anyone had ever heard of Miss Manners, Titus Maccius Plautus discerned the truth about hospitality. "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days," wrote ancient Rome's great playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us...
Before this month, mild-mannered Luke B. Hedrick ’05 had never been called “super-delicious.”
Mild-mannered, polite and genial, Payne’s personality is a closer fit to an altar boy than a defensive end. The only giveaway to his true persona is his 6’3, 230-lb frame.
The hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar...
Lannon, meanwhile, had been on the radar since he started playing Olympic development hockey at the age of 15. About the same time, the Boston Globe wrote a feature on him that described the hockey prodigy as “a parent’s dream come true: tall, handsome...