Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What the university needed, said he, was a traditional Lovers' Lane-a well-supervised Romance Road, lined with benches for convenience and street lamps for decorum. Some students wanted to know just how much supervision the professor was calling for. But the student council liked the idea. As things stood now, complained the council president, campus cops were prowling about like the Gestapo, and that was the wrong emphasis. "We're [the council] more interested in preventing students from going off the deep end than lying in wait for them...
Craig is now regarded as a model of decorum, but there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
...Senate, in a worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut off the Dixiecrat filibuster by cloture, not in order to get a vote on FEPC itself but just to get to the first step: a vote on a motion to bring the bill to the floor...
More middlebrows than highbrows have applauded Viereck's efforts, but Terror and Decorum, his first book of more-or-less straightforward verse, won him a Pulitzer Prize last year. Strike Through the Mask!, his second, is as motley a product as Viereck's prizewinner, ranges from collegiate cacklings to fine and often funny flights of fancy. Conservative, not to say eclectic in form, it has more zest than grace...