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...This custom of affection previously reserved for nearest and dearest is being cheapened by being conferred on all and sundry. Society will soon require some other way to express real love. I suggest the venerable Maori custom of rubbing noses...
...delightful letter to a friend in Paris, he wrote: "There are in England nymphs of divine appearance, both engaging and agreeable. And there is, besides, one custom which can never be commended too highly. When you arrive anywhere you are received with kisses on all sides, and, when you leave, kisses are shared once again. If you should happen to meet, then kisses are given profusely. In a word, wherever you turn, the world is full of kisses. If you too, Fausto, once tasted the softness and fragrance of these same kisses, I swear you would yearn to live abroad...
...President had abruptly cut off the agency's secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein because the Washington Post was about to expose the practice and hence render it useless.* By implication, Carter told newsmen that he had not found anything wrong with the 20-year-old custom of giving money to Hussein. The President said he was reviewing all CIA programs and had so far found nothing wrong. If he did, he promised to stop any "impropriety or illegality" and to "let the American people know about...
...Italians are enthusiastic kissers and have been for generations; the same is true of Slavs. Arab men greet one another with kisses, as do Arab women. The British remain reticent about social kissing. The Japanese, along with many other Orientals, regard kissing -at least in public-as a Western custom, highly unsanitary and offensive...
...custom of kissing has spread from showfolk to the general population, it has raised innumerable, if minute, questions of rite and protocol. Who initiates the kiss? In a kiss between a man and woman, quite often it is the woman who makes the first move - offering her hand, inclining her cheek. But if the man is, say, the woman's boss or her husband's boss, she may wait until he leans forward into that critical distance with in which the kiss occurs...