Obamas study up on courtly manners. ... Traditional royal protocol dictates that men do a neck bow and women do a slight curtsy — though a handshake is considered acceptable as long as the queen ...

But Charles Munger Jr., a courtly Palo Alto physicist who fancies bow ties and suspenders, is determined to reverse the party’s two-decade slide in California.

In the Assembly, U.S. Chief Delegate Warren Austin rose to answer Molotov. He mounted the rostrum with slow but agile dignity, and lowered his white-topped, ruddy-cheeked head in a courtly bow to ...

Question: Is there any halachic rationale for men to shake hands with women? Answer: Last week we noted that Rav Eliezer Silver would remark to women that a courtly bow, rather than a handshake ...