Word: savoir
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Yearly changes in correct savoir faire from 1811 to the era of Emily Post, and rare, extensive information about the woman suffrage fight in America can be studied by Harvard and 'Cliffe under-graduates in the Radcliffe Women's Archives. which provides a rich source for theais material in many fields...
...respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire. I'm perspicacious, perceptive, euphemistic, strong, healthy, idealistic, make my own clothes, hats and bags, do my own hair, cook and love music...
...Annex sophomore who visits Yale once a month sums up Harvard men as: "nice. After all, they are not in any way outstanding, except maybe super-intelligent. But who wants intelligence without 'savoir faire,' and this a Harvard man hasn...
...this point she murmured shyly (it says here), "Harvard men have so much savoir faire...
Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus You're so suave, so debonair Full of verve and savoir faire But I'm inclined to think that You're a square-so there...