Meghan Cox Gurdon: Washington’s Ostragoths sack the dinner table

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Etiquette columnist Miss Manners printed a letter the other day from a woman hoping to introduce a new item of cutlery, the “cheese scissors.”

This device would be handy, the woman wrote, in cutting (rather than tearing, T-Rex-like) those embarrassing lengths of cheese that can stretch between mouth and slice when one is eating pizza, pasta or onion soup.

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