Word: manneredness
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Visitors to Warner, N.H., often stop by Hillside Books, an antique bookstore, to sit by the fire and chat with Owner Thomas Stotler. A day or two after Christmas, a mild-mannered traveler dropped in. He said he was from New York but wanted to get away from the city...
Borrowing from the book business, both B. Dalton and Waldenbooks issue weekly bestseller lists for calendars. Topping last week's Dalton chart: The Teddy Bear Calendar (Workman). Its well-mannered bears at play will likely sell out the 390,000-copy printing. One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles...
Off the field, the Bloomington, Ind native has a distinctively mild-mannered approach to life. "He's like a country boy, very easy-going, a very friendly person," says left guard Ben Thio. "He smiles a lot and just does his job."
For those who find such reading burdensome, there are classes. Baldrige offers lectures and seminars for ill-mannered executives at banks, insurance companies and other protocol-minded firms. "Young managers," she says, "are simply not aware of the nuances of social behavior. It's appalling that young people graduating...
Comparatively, Wednesday's rally was--as political rallies go--mild-mannered. Supporters screamed. Political hanger-ons oohed and aahed. And, in a welcome departure from their behavior in recent weeks, Republican hecklers actually restrained themselves from disrupting the guest speaker.