Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
...tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets the word and the bird. If this plot wearies it nevertheless does not get in the way sufficiently to spoil the central production and comedy numbers which it strings together...
Chile's old guard had long regarded ever-smiling President Gabriel Gonzÿlez Videla as a playboy. They made pointed remarks about his summer custom of riding a bicycle in shorts, sniggered discreetly when he tumbled into the river while boating. But last week the tune changed. Even rightist papers ran friendly stories, and printed such folksy notes as an item regarding his visit to the movies with his handsome, blonde wife Rosa and teen-age daughters Silvia and Rosa. The reason for this new friendliness: Gonzÿlez had turned his back on the Communists...
...Birds & the Flowers. The Honorable Members drifted in behind the procession to hear the solemn reading of the budget by big (6 ft. 3 in.) Hugh Dalton. Hearty Hugh Dalton had played to the hilt a role in another solemn custom of Budget Week. By British tradition a Chancellor of the Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay...
Lewis Douglas, in London less than six weeks as the new U.S. Ambassador, had already started a trade war. Hearing somehow that His Excellency likes to bike, 60 British manufacturers immediately tangled sprockets over who should present him with a custom-built British wheel. While they were debating the matter, a Yankee outfit (Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch) air-expressed Douglas an American bike. His diplomatic decision: "I'll find it hard to ride two bikes at once, but I shall receive both gratefully...