Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
Last week, as the birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby drew near, the old custom was smacked down before it even had a chance to raise its head. "The attendance of a minister of the crown at a birth in the royal family," said Buckingham Palace in a succinct announcement, "is not a statutory requirement ... It is merely the survival of an archaic custom, and the King feels it is unnecessary to continue [the] practice...
PACKARD, WITH A 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE, WHICH HAS FEATURED ITS CUSTOM EIGHT SINCE 1939 AS "AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL MOTOR CAR," GLADLY WELCOMES CADILLAC AS A WORTHY COMPETITOR IN ITS POWER BRACKET WITH THE 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE YOUR ISSUE OF OCT. 25 REPORTS, BUT IS SURPRISED THAT USUALLY ACCURATE TIME IMPLIES THE CADILLAC ENGINE TO BE EXCLUSIVE IN THAT POWER RATING...
Although passing on a tried & true recipe is an old American custom, we were not prepared for the enthusiasm evoked by our request or for the discussions of home problems and the philosophizing about cooking that accompanied many of the recipes. One reader, in submitting a casserole called Baked Macedoine wrote that its U.S. ingredients were hardly as exciting as those she had been used to in Alaska where "I cooked many wonderful meals of moose, caribou, wild sheep and goat, halibut and salmon fresh from the ocean, grayling and trout from the clear, cold rivers. Bear has even been...
Cold Kiss. In London, the Medical Press rather reluctantly recommended a foreign custom to Britons: "The adoption of the French mode of kissing on both cheeks would diminish the prevalence of common colds...