I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what...

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what...

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do...

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do...

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones...

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones...

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which...

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which...

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and...

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and...

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can...

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can...

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia...

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia...

One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as...

One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as...

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad...

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad...