Pursuits
How Emily Post's Heirs Built an Etiquette Monopoly
How the great-great-grandchildren of America’s foremost etiquette expert are politely making money off their famous name
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“Who would like to tell me I have body odor?” Anna Post asks a group of nine people at the Burlington Country Club in Vermont. There’s an awkward silence, everyone hoping someone else will politely inform the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette expert Emily Post that she smells.