He was also a man whose sense of propriety was sometimes indistinguishable from squeamishness.
An engrossing social history and group biography of four New York women, brought up amid Victorian propriety, whose lives became intertwined as they pioneered new roles for their sex..
In another paradox, Peru has created "a culture of fiscal propriety" whose side-effect is that officials are ignoring a social emergency in the Andes, says Mr Webb.Tackling this effectively means reforming the education and health ministries as well as local government.
Others said its angels were the Mob, whose odd sense of propriety kept an outré exercise in sadistic violence away from public consumption.
It tells the story of Jim and Irene Westcott, an Upper East Side husband and wife whose careful sense of propriety gets rattled when Jim buys an expensive new radio that allows them to overhear the conversations of their neighbors.
According to Anderson, Hubert Humphrey, a Pearson favorite, may have had "a firmer grasp on journalistic propriety than Drew," whose methods sometimes left Anderson feeling queasy.
He's followed by the writer Nigella Lawson, whose British accent and mock propriety are counterprogramming to Mr. Bourdain's American slovenliness.
In the Hilton's group, titled "Time and Money," they assumed the guise of tourists and police officers and moneybag-wielding plutocrats whose frenetic interactions defied the propriety of the architecture.
The play's other female characters are insightfully inhabited by the lovely Ms. Dizzia, whose wild fluctuations between starchy propriety and unbridled emotionalism signify her character's psychic dislocation; Ms. Bernstine, who brings a quiet dignity to her performance as the wet nurse; and Ms. Stetson as the crisply efficient but also sympathetic doctor's assistant.
He's creating a night club act for the wealthy but dissatisfied Henri Max von Essenn) whose very respectable parents demand propriety at all times.
