Word: faux pas
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...dinner table during the week before Thanksgiving, the proceeds to be given to the indigent population of South Hadley for Thanksgiving dinners. In the first two days the bill was run up to over sixty-five dollars, which, at the low rate of fines denotes some nine hundred faux pas...
...mentioned, it must be concocted of some fearful kind of pigeon English. At any rate the advantage of a proper equipment of French is easily apparent. One at once belongs to the very exclusive group of those who understand what they are ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux pas as that of the man who, pointing to an item on the menu, asked for "Some of this please" and received the answer "The orchestra is playing that now, Sir". Or one might even join that more exclusive group, the waiters. For Mr. Britten reports that those...
...newspapers. There are now 31 of these papers in existence scattered over the country from Los Angeles to Cambridge. They are probably more useful as educational institutions than as news -distributing agencies, for even the long established dailies of Yale, Harvard and Princeton are replete with errors and journalistic faux pas. Among the 31 is the Daily lowan of Iowa University, and that paper, it was announced, has become a member of the Associated Press...