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Aurelia Marinescu
"When you kiss a lady's hand, do you lean over her hand or bring her hand to your lips? • You are dating a lady. Do you wait for them to extend your hand or do you extend it first? • You are in the restaurant together with your wife or fiancee and a friend of hers. The flower seller is coming. Which of the two ladies do you buy flowers for or give them to first? • How do you take the olive pits out of your mouth at the table? • You met a friend and his wife, on the street, and you continue a part of the road with them. Which way will you go?" Here are the questions Romanians from interwar Bucharest asked themselves, evoked by Ioana Pârvulescu in a well-known book. The answers to such questions are sought even nowadays, since Aurelia Marinescu's Code of Good Manners, a real national bestseller sold so far in 300,000 copies, continues to be a book desired by the public. If the principles of decency are eternal, the norms of behavior must take into account the change of habits and mentality with the passage of time.