Irishman:
Off-topic and just to clarify, I didn’t get the impression that the man was shot simply and solely because he wouldn’t stand for the Anthem. Toward the middle of the linked article is the line “Goddard muttered and drew a pistol.”
Yes, dear Irishman, you did. But I understand how it might be misconstrued if one weren’t familiar with the styles of Miss Manners or Emily Post.
Most etiquette writers use a genteel voice, sometimes a bit snippy (when they feel someone has overstepped the boundaries of good taste), usually more than a bit formal and always excruciatingly correct. Some of us find them enjoyable and charming, others find them outright irritating.
My mom (born 1940, New Jersey) has often told me how, when she was a kid, the girls all carried handkerchiefs in case they had to go into a church–they would use them to cover their heads.
You may be. It’s in the Letters of Paul (NT, Christian) that there are some lines about how it behooves women to (a) let their hair grow long and (b) cover their heads in church.
First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 11 (NIV Version):
Whooo, boy… Paul was having one of those days there, wasn’t he? But in the end he kind of damages his own argument by appealing to “but anyone can see it’s natural”… which you should not need to appeal to if you’re relaying God’s rules. From context it seems that the Corinthian congregation were kind of drifting into general disorderliness and the Apostle decided to just tear into everything about what went on there.
Then again, tradition has it that Paul was balding at an early age. Maybe he had issues with hair (and women).
