Word: mannerses
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Bravo, Miss Manners! For your good example and constant nagging, you deserve our thanks, perhaps even a tip of the hat.
DEAR Miss MANNERS: What am I supposed to say when I am introduced to a homosexual "couple "?
The triumph of Miss Manners is both a cause and a consequence of something stirring in the American subconscious. Since etiquette is largely symbolic of manners, and since manners stylistically express what people think about other people, the revived interest in what used to be called proper behavior implies a...
Eating and entertaining are becoming more elaborate, in sometimes confused ways. New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton, a sharp-eyed chronicler of manners, recalls being invited to a black-tie dinner with a group of typical yuppies, nervously ambitious professionals in their late 20s-but there were no servants. "Wearing black...
DEAR Miss MANNERS: I am remarrying my ex-husband . . . How do I inform the proper relatives . . . and not appear to be asking for gifts?