21.   His stories, by turns rollicking and hard-boiled, are tales of life lived at the margins of what passes for polite society.

22.   If being ready for polite society means knowing which fork to use, South Fork is definitely the proper choice.

23.   In a city that never sleeps and where polite society still has a prominent place, these senior social butterflies are the ultimate role models.

24.   Inmates of Simpson House are barred from respectable golf courses and restaurants, isolated from polite society and slandered with impunity via all known forms of mass communication.

25.   It is not only exchanged just about everywhere except in polite society, it is much sought.

26.   It proposes that this brand of acting out represents freedom, an escape from the shackles of polite society.

27.   No one wants to talk about ruminant fears in polite society.

28.   Now that he lives in what passes for polite society, Mr. Fussy has to keep his feelings about hospitality to himself.

29.   Once relegated to the porch and the sun room, the wicker family has moved into the polite society of the living room.

30.   Polite society may still frown on parading cannas in ribbon borders, but a well-placed canna or two as an accent among more discreet perennials is usually applauded.