Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hates the greens on golf courses, and when playing, simply skips them. He is eternally suspicious of lawyers. He believes "they can steal without getting put in jail" and habitually greets them with the cry of "Burglar!" He is against John L. Lewis, amateurs of all kinds, and the custom of eating lunch. He is convinced that the legislative process was conceived for only one purpose-grilling Petrillo like a frankfurter. When annoyed by an opponent, he screams: "Tell him he's nuts-he oughta run for Congress." He trusts only one man with power-Petrillo...
When the 1948 Assembly convened, the oldest member, 78-year-old Marcel Cachin, presided as chairman, according to custom. It was not Cachin who had the non-Communists worried. It was slick, sly Comrade Jacques Duclos, who was the Assembly's first vice president last year...
...custom for a Scot to carry his heart on his sleeve," one letter said. "Rather would he say everything is all right, and that he is going along fine than solicit help. It's not the value of the magnificent gifts you have shipped from Boston. That is great, But more valuable still is the spirit which prompted it, and my poor words cannot adequately express my personal thanks...
...catcher was the custom-built $30,600 Sport Fisherman of Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., with red-leather "fighting" and swordfish chairs, and a built-in cocktail bar. But the crowd pleasers were the mass production models like M. M. Davis & Son's 21-ft. Cruis-Along ($2,440) and Churchward & Co.'s all-steel, all-welded Steelcraft cruisers, priced from...
...their preholiday scramble to dispose of weightier matters, Congressmen did not forget the old custom of giving a year's salary to the heirs of a deceased member -even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...