Vanderbilt, Amy creator text nyu Garden City, N.Y Doubleday c1972 1972 [New revised edition] monographic eng

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xxiii, 929 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Christenings -- Debuts -- Courtship and engagements -- Wedding invitations and announcements -- Wedding gifts -- The trousseau -- Preparations for the wedding -- The wedding attendants and their duties -- Pre-wedding parties -- Dress for the wedding -- The rehearsal -- The wedding ceremony -- The wedding reception -- Second and subsequent marriages -- The honeymoon and post-wedding calls -- Wedding anniversaries -- Funerals -- Men's clothes -- The well-groomed man -- A man's manners in the business world -- The masculine graces -- The well-dressed woman -- The fastidious and well-mannered woman -- What's what in various sports -- The social pleasantries -- The smoking problem -- Clubs -- Manners at table -- Our community relations and interfaith courtesy and understanding -- The new citizen and his particular problems -- Informal entertaining -- Formal entertaining -- The guest at formal meals -- Special problems of service -- The ritual of drinking -- Entertaining indoors -- Entertaining out of doors -- Hosts and guests -- Family meals -- Furnishings in the established household -- Employer-servant relations -- Dress and duties of household help -- Gracious living without servants -- Stationery and letters -- Invitations, acceptances, and regrets -- Correct forms of address -- Heraldic devices -- Writing and conversation can be more colorful -- Manners in marriage -- Children and the formation of character -- The adult-child relationship -- Adopting a child -- Traveling with children -- The teen-ager and young adult -- The college years -- Divorce and separation -- Dining in restaurants -- Cards and calls -- Hospitals and doctors -- Speaking before an audience -- Simple parliamentary procedure -- Your appearance at public functions -- You and celebrities -- Attending Annapolis Hops -- Visiting West Point -- How to tell military rank -- Visiting a naval vessel -- The new resident in Washington -- The flag and our National Anthem Traveling by ship, plane, train, and bus -- Tips to the stay-at-home -- How customs differ abroad -- An audience with the Pope -- Traveling by car drawings by Fred McCarroll, Mary Suzuki, Andy Warhol Includes index 1952-1958 editions published under title: Complete book of etiquette; 1963-1967 editions: New complete book of etiquette Etiquette Etiquette BJ1853 .V27 1972 395 78171326 720314 20231212141729.0 277944