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Happy Valentine's!

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Time for a Quick Top 5: Valentine’s Date Night Edition. 1. Be on time! Don’t keep your date waiting! 2. Be clean! Go easy on fragrance, too. What you love might make your date sneeze. 3. Be prepared! If you failed to get reservations at your favorite res...

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Welcome the Belle of the Ball!

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We are pleased to feature a guest post from Chelsea Hanson! Belle of the Ball is a new featured column we will be running in coordination with Chelsea at Southern Gent Gifts. Be sure to check them out for great gift ideas for yourself or someone special. Belle of the Ball presents: 5 Ways to Imp...

Tagged: chelsea hanson, belle of the ball, southern gents gifts, dating, first date, second date, valentines day, etiquette


News Flash: Cupid Prescribes!

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Etiquette changes with the times. Nowhere is this more evident than in archival material. Valentine’s Day on the brain? For some charming, if slightly outdated, advice, why not take a quick travel in time…to 1959? Feb. 8, 1959, to be precise— as captured in an article published that day in The L...

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Here's a good New Year's resolution: Civility!

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Quick! Make a New Year’s resolution! Happy New Year! While you’re assessing how 2011 went and considering goals for 2012, why not think of civility? We found an excellent article, published in Salida, Colorado’s Mountain Mail, on this very subject. “…Maybe, as we j...

Tagged: center on congress, civility, george washingtons rules of civility, lee h hamilton, new year, resolutions


Happy Holidays!

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Pasar buenas vacaciones Trevlig helg Bonnes vacances 즐거운 휴일 보내세요 Buone vacanze Any way you say it, we wish it so for you and yours! Happy Holidays!!!!!! Debra Lassiter, April McLean & Cindy Haygood The Etiquette & Leadership Institute December 2011

Tagged: christmas, happy holidays, childrens etiquette, perfectly polished, manners, eli


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