Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough, religious Americans of the 17th Century had a handful of homemade rules of etiquette that were ambitious ("Cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety, the Satin of Sanctity, the Purple of Modesty . . .") and sometimes blunt ("Fish and visitors stink in three days"). By the 18th Century, they had learned to plagiarize the French and English rule-books, after carefully tossing out all that smacked of aristocratic cynicism...
Andrew Jackson's entry into the White House-previously tenanted only by the "better people" - symbolized a sharp break from accepted manners. Jackson himself, says Author Schlesinger, was naturally courteous, but the new-rich were afraid that mere courtesy was not enough. Ostentation became the rule. Wrote one commentator: "Always keep callers waiting, till they have had time to notice the outlay of money in your parlors...
Jacobean comedy will revisit, Cambridge this week when Radcliffe's Idler Club raises the curtain on its 1946-47 theater season. Directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolf Howe, the Garden Street actresses will present the first performances in 120 years of John Fietcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" on Thursday. Friday and Saturday eventings at Agassiz Hall...
...with Russia in the next 15 years, "not only for rule of the world but for the mind of humanity," was predicted as the inevitable result of persisting Western naivete by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, last night...
...only possible exception to this fairly rigid rule will be guard Saul Marisachin. With probably the best shot on the squad, Mariaschin has brought into this fall's practice the same deadly accuracy that marked his play last year. Although the squad won't spend all its time working into set-shot openings for Saul, it's a good possibility that his arching shots will be used to spread enemy defenses for the fast breaks which are the mark of Barclay's teams...