Etiquette writer advises the use of "Mesdames".
More than 70% of those who come under the knife now earn less than $50,000 a year.The second big new market is in "well-being"—whole treatment systems that cover beauty, exercise and diet, including visits to spas, salons and clubs, and hark back to the early days of Mesdames Arden and Rubinstein.
It is not, messieurs, mesdames of Rusi, the existence of the bogey of multiculturalism that exposes us to the risk of terror, but efforts to impose a single monolithic and invented sense of "nationhood", which, if it is weak in relation to the intensities engendered by other ideologies, must mimic these, according to Rusi, in order that "we" should prevail.
An etiquette writer in the World-Telegram, propounding the same problem, by a funny coincidence, advises the use of the French "Mesdames," followed, the writer goes on, "by the customary dash".
We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing". Thus, Dinesen depicts a forcefully assertive artist who proclaims her rights, affirms her superiority, and underscores her distinction from the sisters and, indeed, from their entire world.
They know exactly where the mesdames et messieurs of Pret can stick their batons.
Mesdames!" shouts the Host of the Ball, over a sinister vamp in the bass.
In 1963 when the News-Press ran Preston's story, social etiquette dictated that married women used their husband's first name and that if a group of women were listed, the word Mesdames preceded the list.
That would square with the renaissance of French cuisine cresting across America; Ludo Lefebvre helped jump-start the country's renewed hunger for precisely blond rolled omelets, escargot and croques messieurs et mesdames with his original Highland Avenue location of Petit Trois.
In that vein, here are the names of those who served on the NCL building committee: Mesdames Hal Anawalt, Merritt S. Dunlap, Karsten M. Ericksmoen, J. Lee Gregg, George Irving, Ray Kidd, Paul Martin, Dean Miller, Alden C. Waite and Harold Wescher.
One way to greet a crowd of people in the evening is to state, "Bonsoir mesdames et messieurs," meaning, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen".
