Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...
Whereupon Deane drew herself up to her fulsome majesty and said, "Here at Harvard, it is the custom that the Director of Public Information not only put out the news, but should there be a luck, create it as well...
...onset of standard time comes like some Calvinist retribution, the sudden blue hour of premature evening when for reasons of custom the nation is condemned to go home in darkness...
...COMING OF AGE. Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayanan. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children or have merely reached on untenable age. "Do the sacrificed elders often have a reaction of dread and rebellion?" de Beauvoir asks. She thinks evidence proves they do. Yet spanning the centuries as well as the distance between East and West, she concludes that old that old age has become life's parody in all societies, an end so degrading that...
...fashion. The topless bathing suit was a typical Gernreichian prank - and it drew plenty of publicity. When he unveiled his spring line in New York City last week, Gernreich brought the house down with a four-sleeved dress. It was a takeoff on the old - and newly fashionable - custom of draping a sweater over the shoulders and tying the sleeves loosely round the neck. On the Gernreich number, only the sweater sleeves exist; sewed to the shoulders of the dress, they can be tied stylishly in front...