Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a long-standing custom here at TIME for our overseas correspondents, most of whom are American-trained journalists, to return to their native U.S. at frequent intervals for firsthand conversations with TIME'S editors and a reacquaintance with the changing American scene and idiom. Seldom, however, do we have a chance to greet a correspondent who is visiting the U.S. for the first time...
...group, Truman's congressional leaders were seasoned and skilled tacticians, if not deep political philosophers. Franklin Roosevelt had provided the political philosophy a decade ago; now Truman would have to. The President and his Congress leaders agreed to revive Franklin Roosevelt's old custom of conferring at the White House once a week, at Roosevelt's old hour-Mondays...
...gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass for a pennance, for the generality of the women here, both old and young, are remarkably ugly...
...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
...best jokes are family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...