Word: punctilio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
Emily Post, grand old lady of punctilio, informed interviewers that the bedroom of her country place was done in Chinese red. "Some of my friends say they think a bedroom should be restful," said she, "but I don't rest in a bedroom ever...
Before Cluny knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England...
...week's end Mao gave in, with Chinese punctilio: "Mr. Chiang Kai-shek ... I appreciate your telegram. My humble self is most willing to come to Chungking. . . . Chou En-lai is leaving as soon as your plane arrives. Your younger brother is preparing to come in the immediate future. . . ." Chungking reported that U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley would go to Yenan to escort Mao to Chiang...
...about ten minutes. Nothing searching was asked. We used to stand outside and load those questions like a Continental's musket, with all the old iron, broken glass and pointed rocks we could find - then march in and fire both barrels. But this was all polite ness and punctilio and namby-pamby questions. Reporters who used to ask questions like rusty razor blades now seemed to figure: with all he has on his shoulders, should I really do this to him? The old rough- & -tumble give-& -take is another wartime casualty...