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1950s etiquette tips win teen $300K book deal
The New York Post ^
| October 30, 2013
| Kate Sheehy
Posted on 10/30/2013 10:13:14 AM PDT by Stoat
So much for Womens Lib.
An eighth-grader took cues from a 1950s etiquette book touting white gloves and girdles in a quirky bid to be popular at school a couple years ago and now, shes laughing all the way to the bank.
Teenager Maya Van Wagenen cleverly chronicled how she used tips from the decades-old Betty Cornells Teen-age Popularity Guide to gain an edge as a student new to Brownsville, Texas.
She followed some of Cornells sage advice, which included the gloves, white pearls and girdles, as well as how to properly squeeze pimples, shave ones legs for summer and deal with figure problems by choosing grapefruit and wheat toast with [a] small amount of butter for breakfast.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: conservatism; etiquette; mayavanwagenen; tradition
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To: Kartographer
ld never set down until the lady was seated. Tell me whats wrong with that.There are almost no ladies around these days.
To: Tax-chick
I thought the same thing when I read it earlier! LOL!
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posted on
10/30/2013 12:59:51 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: Stoat
Talk about “memory lane.” Thanks for the link!
63
posted on
10/30/2013 1:03:28 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: null and void
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:04:37 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: jocon307
Grace Kelly looked classy in everything she wore.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:09:37 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: null and void
That’s funny...I always say “thanks!”
Living alone for so long has its drawbacks, though. I often forget for the doors to be opened and the chairs to be pulled out.
*sigh*
I DID know how to do all that, once upon a time.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:11:40 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: AnalogReigns
Which is why I ALWAYS dress up nicely for church...no jeans, no sleeveless tops, no sneaks.
Modest skirts, dresses, jewelry and heels.
All out of respect for the House of the Lord. You never know when He will show up!
67
posted on
10/30/2013 1:14:31 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Wars on drugs & terrorists brought more drugs & terrorists; maybe we can have a war on money & jobs.)
To: Monkey Face
I dress up to go to Walmart ... just not in heels.
68
posted on
10/30/2013 1:19:01 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
To: Nea Wood
Anyone who didn’t stand up for Maureen O’Hara would probably lose a limb! My youngest daughter is named “Kathleen” for her character in “Rio Grande.”
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:21:06 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
To: null and void
15 years or so ago I was leaving a DC subway station as a middle aged lady, with both arms full of stuff, was trying to push the door open to enter. Nobody else seemed to notice her plight so I held the door for her. Her only response was:
you must have been raised in Indiana. I was, so I took it as a compliment.
To: erlayman
Rape, riot, massacres, child abuse, and animal cruelty may have flourished in previous ages ... and now, too. Maybe not as much animal cruelty, in the U.S., and we've been spared massacres for a few generations ...
If people aren't constrained by behavioral conventioned, and they aren't constrained by morality, then there's no constraint other then brute force.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:25:33 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
To: Tax-chick
This really isn’t the thread to argue it but when one strata of society has all the power with no laws to rein them in you are going to have massive abuses of force no matter what the era or conventional standards.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:42:30 PM PDT
by
erlayman
To: erlayman
I think I agree. Maybe the topic will come up on some other thread, and then we could usefully discuss it, other things being equal.
73
posted on
10/30/2013 1:46:47 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
To: Monkey Face
“Grace Kelly looked classy in everything she wore.”
This is true, she could have worn a potatoe sack and looked like a million bucks. (See I spell potatoe like Dan Quayle!)
74
posted on
10/30/2013 1:51:27 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Red Badger; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re:
Grace Kelly would be so proud.... Ward, you can be as hard as you want on... the beaver tonight, 'cause in 60 some odd years, it will be greatly admired!
Well, any time I can be hard on the beaver... well, it just makes my day--
Hey, June was a hottie in the 1950s, so I cannot blame you, Ward... but that is my line!
Stow it, Rowdy! In the 1950s... Roy was the sexy cowboy!
Yeah... I was!
Yeah, he... WAS!
Ugh, Dale, you not say that when you spend night in tent with me... and Kemo Sabe!
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posted on
10/30/2013 2:16:00 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: a fool in paradise
I sincerely appreciate your very-helpful information, it’s all sincerely appreciated :-) Thank you so much :-)
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:27:45 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: MeganC
Looking like a girl and acting like a lady never goes out of fashion.
At least it doesn't among coherent, sane and thoughtul people ;-)
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posted on
10/30/2013 4:31:52 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: Stoat
There are two copies currently available at Abe Books.
78
posted on
10/30/2013 4:34:08 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I appreciate it, thank you :-)
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:23:42 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: All
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posted on
10/30/2013 5:25:54 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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