Word: punctilio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...
...more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio...
...past times the Vagabond has written of spring as a season of roaring brooks, thawing snows, bursting buds, foaming mugs, a yellow moon, drifting music, and charming laughter. But it is none of these, delightfully as he said so. Nor yet was Tennyson correct when, with awful Victorian punctilio, he wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon...