Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...erroneously reported that Los Angeles youth had invented a fascinating custom-taking off its shoes at dances. ... I wish to claim the honor for the people to whom I think it rightfully belongs-Minneapolis' own West High School. I started at West in the fall of 1943, and during my three years at West I danced shoeless at almost every dance. As did many others...
...essential part of the act is to rile the umpire, and in doing so to rile the other team. This is not considered out-of-the-way in Brooklyn, where it was a custom to chant Three Blind Mice as the umpires walked on field...
...Allens rarely gad about. One night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...
...religious man is not only religious when he prays; his work is religiously done, his recreation religiously enjoyed, his food and drink religiously received; the last he often emphasizes by the custom of grace before meat. He does his duty religiously; above all, his failures in, duty affect him religiously...
...chaplains to become unpopular in countries favoring Communism. But he emphasized that the duties of the English clergyman abroad are confined to the spiritual welfare of Britons, do not entail spreading the gospel. Batty's more poignant memories of Russia include the Russian clergy's "unfortunate custom of kissing each other when meeting. . . . This is all very well for the Russian clergymen, all of whom are well-equipped with long and spiky beards, but it can be most uncomfortable for a clean-shaven English bishop." He recalls how a Russian priest once solemnly kissed his rather short chaplain...