Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...place and its ways to do so. Occasionally visitors fall to acquiesce in this small sign of respect. It is then customary for those below in the dining hall to call the attention of the guests to their failure to comply with what is considered respectful by tapping a tumbler with one of the table accessories. Past experience has proved that it is seldom or never that visitors so reproved fail to amend their fault. At no other time, however, is it necessary to evince any knowledge of the presence of visitors in the gallery. And at no time whatever...