Word: oldworld
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...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...
...demonstrate anew his ceaseless vigilance Harvard's despot sallied forth from his lair, and assisted one Miss Catherine Morison to unveil the new pump with all his oldworld chivalry and eclat...
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