Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doomed to be thrust from power by the onrushing forces of history, the aristocracy of 18th century Europe elected to live out its autumn in a sort of perpetual costume party. It was an age of elaboration, in manners and art, essentially frivolous but with a concealed streak of autumnal...
TIME really did help me spread the idea of the crying need for instruction in good manners, and I am most grateful.
The U.N. delegation (three U.S. generals, one British and one South Korean) went through the preset motions with North Korea's stony-faced delegates who practice the surly manners of their close ally and big brother, Red China. The two sides walked in from opposite ends of the Quonset...
As her story begins, Fanny is a 15-year-old Lancashire lass who arrives in London and promptly falls into the clutches of a sporting-house madam. Her subsequent adventures are detailed in prose that misses nary an 18th century curlicue. Of one memorable orgy for eight, she relates: "It...
It was Pamela Harris' charming portrayal of Miss Z which gave the production its lively quality. Her superb ear for dialect and speech rhythm, the expert manner in which she used her full vocal range, and the lovely lilt of her voice as she ended her statements with "mightn't...