Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the days of Tyre and Nineveh, in ancient Rome and more ancient Greece, the waiters in the early versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...