Word: etiquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest his constituents doubt the sincerity of this statement, wily Manuel Quezon took another way of expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained...
Having filled a good-sized book with observations on personnel problems, Chinese face-saving, food, business etiquet, chiseling, the role of witch-doctors in business, the vagaries of U. S. export managers, and whatever else was at hand except a statement of profits, Author Crow gently implies that although the Chinese birth rate is approximately one a minute, it consists of a remarkably small number of suckers...
...Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue to speak. This was far closer to steamroller tactics than the U. S. Senate usually sees. Many of the elder members of the Club fumed with anger at the breach of etiquet...
...right to tear up the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24, 1935); the man who not only gave the Nazi salute to new King George at a levee (TIME, Feb. 15), but later presented 17 Nazis, all of whom injected Nazi saluting into Court etiquet; and finally this week as the Nazi persuader who is out to make peace in the West while the world's biggest Rearmament investments are made by Germany and Russia for War in the East. Russia is the only Great Power which could possibly be whipped...
...successful was this flagrant breach of Latin-American diplomatic etiquet that Franklin Roosevelt last week copied it, won vivas and much praise at Rio de Janeiro by appearing for his official welcome in a sack suit...