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Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises
Donald Ogden Stewart and Ralph Barton
To secure the affections of a young lady, begin with a correct introduction: so runs the etiquette of courtship according to Donald Ogden Stewart, and it collapses into brilliant nonsense from there. His parody of manners manuals covers social crises with immaculate deadpan, from cards and flowers to the messages flowers send. By the future screenwriter of The Philadelphia Story. Etiquette, perfectly demolished.
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108 chapters
- 1Perfect Behavior
- 2Illustrated by Ralph Barton
- 3A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
- 4Contents
- 5CONTENTS
- 6CHAPTER ONE: THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP
- 7A FEW WORDS ABOUT LOVE
- 8CORRECT INTRODUCTIONS; HOW TO MAKE THEM
- 9CARDS AND FLOWERS
- 10FLOWERS AND THEIR MESSAGE IN COURTSHIP
- 11RECEIVING AN INVITATION TO CALL
- 12THE ETIQUETTE OF TELEPHONING
- 13MAKING THE FIRST CALL
- 14CONVERSATION AND SOME OF ITS USES
- 15A PROPER CALL
- 16THE PROPOSAL PROPER
- 17CHAPTER TWO: THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS
- 18THE HISTORIC ASPECT
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