Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, which had set itself the task of writing a whole new batch of labor legislation. They knew most of the testimony by heart; they had heard it over & over again. But it was an old American custom to give everyone his say. Industry had had its inning...
...Hollywood, Cinemactress Gene Tierney fell upstairs and broke a toe. Otherwise, everything moved according to custom...
...being adequate, if nothing more. Most of the remainder of a large and expensive cast, which includes Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Herbert Marshall, and John Payne, among innumerable others, gives the same sort of not-particularly-exciting performance. Clifton Webb, in a part which seems almost to have been custom-tailored for him, makes the most of every one of his opportunities, and should merit the greatest share of whatever acting murels you might care to hand...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...just an economist-a confessed "illiterate in the arts." But for the past five years Lewis Webster Jones had presided effectively over Vermont's arty, progressive Bennington College, whose 300-odd girls favor sloppy blue jeans and custom-tailored curricula, and excel in the modern dance...