Good Manners From the Honest Heart by Oktavec Ury
The essay defines good manners as a mix of distinctive behaviors and courtesy grounded in consideration. It contrasts manners with bearing breeding and etiquette, notes cultural and historical shifts, and emphasizes manners as a social glue that fosters dialogue and cooperation while bad manners breed conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. Oktavecury
Japan
England
United States
Lodge
Congress
United Nations
Paper-training the begonia by Dick West
Psychologists say pets are child substitutes and plants fill that niche. A growing plant trade offers indoor greenery as pet alternatives. A boy longs for a begonia for his girlfriend. a rescue league provides a suitable hybrid begonia, ensuring a hopeful home and easy care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Mother Earth
Sonny
California
Botanic Rescue League
Laws and language echo in Maine court saga lobstermen tale
A Maine tale recalls a long court fight over a town license and the meaning of shall versus may. A lobsterman's joke about Disneyland in Utah illustrates how words shape law. Other notes report Judge Graves retiring, Vermont floods hindering travel, and Joy Edgerton named DAR Good Citizenship girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship
Maine
Law Court
Joy Edgerton
James Edgerton
West Arlington
Arlington Memorial High School
Shaftsbury town pre meeting and local admin notes
The Shaftsbury pre town meeting drew over 150 attendees at Cole Hall covering road work cemetery trust fund and quarterly officer reports. Floyd Holliday moderated Frank Kenyon was clerk. Vermont Life editor appointment and UCS medical services director named. cockfight warrants planned. Hicks School lease approved for overflow students. Historical notes reference Foster death Stanton resignation Grant ouster surrenders and a 1972 umpire ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cemetery Trust Fund
Shaftsbury
Cole Hall
Floyd Holliday
Frank Kenyon
Board of Trustees
UCS
James M. Toolan
Greater Bennington
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Max. Loae
Begonia
By Dick West
John Gould
Vinalhaven Island
Disneyland
Main
Utah
Christian Science Publishing Society
Collins M. Graves
Vermont
Bennington
Woodford Hollow
Norton Barber
Francis E. Morrissey
Montpelier
Burlington
City
Middlesex
Winooski
Walter R. Hard Jr
Vermont Life
Vermont Development Commission
Hicks
Hicks Avenue
U.S. 7
Molly Stark
Beech Street
Stephen Foster
New York
U.S. Senate
Andrew Johnson
Edwin Stanton
Ulysses Grant
Biafra
Nigeria
New York State
Barbara Mikulski
Maryland
London
Robson-Decker
Main Street
Hoosick Falls
Bennington, VI
Gladstone
New England
Upper Church
Barre
ST. Albans
North Main St
North Main
Newport
Rutland
Rutland Plaza
West Canal
Main St
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