Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME pleads guilty to the U.S. custom of applying the word divorced to both parties, regrets that its U.S. usage was misunderstood in England, assures the Duchess of Westminster that it had no intention of accusing her of having been the guilty party...
...streets of Mexico, Christmas is the quietest day of the year. For children it is just another day of waiting for the toys that by Mexican custom will come a fortnight later, on Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Kings...
...centuries, France's spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint's statue on the garish Boulevard St.-Denis. An old tradition permitted all men to kiss any spinster they encountered on St. Catherine's Day, but this was outlawed by some busybody reformers in 1933; last week, as usual, the 1933 prohibition was roundly ignored...
...Atlantic City last Friday, a meeting of school and college leaders registered a vote condemning one aspect of admission policies common to many colleges, including Harvard. The particular custom under attack was a ruling that forces students taking College Board Examinations to rank colleges on a first, second, and third choice basis. The vote...
...mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley Teele has noted, "but he doesn't like...