Word: customers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyers were actually delivered to them in the U.S., heavily guarded and wrapped against spying. Not until this week will the curtain be lifted to let U.S. women get their first glimpse of the actual dresses, in magazines or newspapers. Working frantically against that deadline, swank stores prepared custom-made copies, to sell at $300 and up, from originals that may have cost them from $500 to $3,500; manufacturers on Seventh Avenue trimmed and compromised to produce a $39.50 version of a simple $600 day dress to be ready for Easter sales...
...book. It is an adult's biography of a cat who became her pet and then her friend. May Sarton knows how to tell an adult about a cat. The usual hurdles of condescension and over-indulgence cause her no trouble. And she conspicuously avoids the Walt Disney custom of fastening human personalities onto animals. And that, in fact, is what the book is about...
...midst of lecturing in the U.S., Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, former provost of King's College, Cambridge University, issued a blunt warning to U.S. literature teachers. "This custom you have of the quiz." said he, "is very dangerous. To read with a view of being examined is impious. It's wicked! It's impossible to read with happiness when you're looking out for what the old boy, or the old girl, is going...
...custom-built road runner...
...England, he believes, is to be praised for its preservation of ancient traditions and institutions. Continental Europe has lost the "old way," as a result mainly of the French Revolution and its consequences. The Fascists tried to restore tradition in Italy but failed, because, once broken, the chain of custom cannot be repaired. For example, d'Entreves illustrates, you could not wear a gown at Harvard today, because that tradition has been broken and lost. England has, however, carefully preserved her customs and culture, and is to be praised...