Word: etiquet
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...soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become...
Editor Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week Taxi Weekly printed a lengthy retraction and apology, but despite the good-natured advice of the court, Mr. Darling continued his suit, which pends...
Thus, at Melbourne, Australia, last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor, Monsieur, that Paderewski will accord him the honor which he deserves...
...gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles dime museum "for men only" (TIME, Feb. 28), President Speare conferred upon it a "roads scholarship...
Wedding. On the wedding afternoon resplendent Swedish nobles strode up the staircase of the Royal Palace accompanied by their wives who wore the frumpy white "court dresses" prescribed by Swedish etiquet. Only the ladies of the royal party 'itself were attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal...