Word: archaicism
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Whether or not business losses are actually as large as the businessmen claim, Blue Laws are archaic. Not because Hartford merchants make money and Boston merchants don't, but because it is foolish to inconvenience people by a law based on sentiments which few of them share. It may not always be necessary to close a real estate deal on Sunday, but it is necessary often enough, and offensive to few enough people, that it should not be prohibited by law. As for holidays, they should, as the commission noted, be treated separately. Whatever their origins, holidays in this country...
happiness -penás, -pán- n -ES [happy + -ness) 1 archaic : good
fortune : good luck : PROSPERITY
Michiganders of both parties have long recognized the need for constitutional reform. The current constitution was writ ten in 1908, has been amended 67 times, now runs 13,000 words longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is cluttered with archaic provisions, including one which puts a $250,000 ceiling on the state debt. Like many another state constitution, it apportions legislative representation in a fashion that is, after half a century of shifting population, totally unrealistic. The only real issue, after voters last spring approved a convention to draft a new constitution, was which party would elect more delegates...
...With respect to size, no Chicago bank has grown over the last several years," grumps Chicago Banker David M. Kennedy, 56, hitting at the archaic state law that forbids any Illinois bank to open branches. Seeking another way to grow, Kennedy's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $2.8 billion) this week will absorb the neighboring City National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $385 million). The merger will make Continental Chicago's largest bank-just ahead of First National. But there may be trouble coming: though the Treasury Department approved the merger to help out slipping City National...
...actors with Biblical haircuts, dye-blonde actresses with bright blue eyelids; sailors in summer whites, girls in their summer dresses, girls in slacks, pony-tailed skinks from Greenwich Village, and novice beards with the Penguin Classics in the hip hip pockets of their dungarees-fabricating laughter in all the archaic places. The crowd begins on folding chairs around a large and multi-proned stage, then spreads out onto bleachers and grass-covered slopes. About 3,500 turn up in Manhattan's Central Park each evening to watch the New York Shakespeare Festival's new production of A Midsummer...