Search Details

Word: missing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Bravo, Miss Manners! For your good example and constant nagging, you deserve our thanks, perhaps even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...DEAR Miss MANNERS: What am I supposed to say when I am introduced to a homosexual "couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

GENTLE READER:. . . Miss Manners is also trying to work up some sympathy for the father, but is finding it difficult . . . Miss Manners confesses that she would be pleased if the two families got together and eliminated their common problem, namely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...DEAR Miss MANNERS: I recently viewed a friend's granddaughter performing on TV, and the friend asked me how I liked it. I told her that I enjoyed it very much, which pleased her. Actually, I hated it. Was I a hypocrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

GENTLE READER: Miss Manners tries very hard to understand the concept of emotional human duty in a society whose members are bothered by their consciences for the deed of having pleased a grandmother by complimenting her granddaughter . . . Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Previous | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | Next