Word: etiquet
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...Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London. Painfully shy, Shaw's eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum was read all the books on etiquet. For nine years he wrote unwanted novels and was a complete failure, then his music criticism caught on. When Harris was editor of the Saturday Review he made Shaw his dramatic critic. Shaw's weekly column became a brilliant event...
...Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected...
Observers unfamiliar with motorboating etiquet wondered whether, even if Wood had tricked Don into a false start, he had broken boating etiquet. Observers familiar with motorboating ethics were not so perplexed. They called the trick unsporting...
...national importance because the previous three have been girls (one has died). It was also of personal importance to two charming young people, Crown Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with a short sword, nine and one-half...
...world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting son Daniel, later used as a houseboat by Spencer Borden, only recently refitted for sea service...