Word: punctilio
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Before Cluny knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England...
...week's end Mao gave in, with Chinese punctilio: "Mr. Chiang Kai-shek ... I appreciate your telegram. My humble self is most willing to come to Chungking. . . . Chou En-lai is leaving as soon as your plane arrives. Your younger brother is preparing to come in the immediate future. . . ." Chungking reported that U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley would go to Yenan to escort Mao to Chiang...
...about ten minutes. Nothing searching was asked. We used to stand outside and load those questions like a Continental's musket, with all the old iron, broken glass and pointed rocks we could find - then march in and fire both barrels. But this was all polite ness and punctilio and namby-pamby questions. Reporters who used to ask questions like rusty razor blades now seemed to figure: with all he has on his shoulders, should I really do this to him? The old rough- & -tumble give-& -take is another wartime casualty...
...teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...
...Punctilio. In Denver, L. Ward Bannister wrote the War Department to learn if he could cable his son, Lieut. Wayne A. Bannister, ultimately got a reply from Africa: "Dear Sir: I regret to inform you that the only circumstances under which you may send a cable to your son are in the event of family emergency. In such case a cable may be forwarded to him by the American Red Cross. Wayne A. Bannister...