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...making presidential comparisons because they encompass the modern presidency-that cataclysmic expansion of federal services and presidential powers that began with Franklin Roosevelt. So simple and quiet was the White House even in Herbert Hoover's time that Hoover, the last of the old era, continued the custom of shaking hands with tourists for an hour every day. He had another distinction: he was the last sitting President to be defeated at the polls...
...apres-gala orgy, consecrated by custom, begins. Sloshing up the stairs, one of the producers of the event mutters to a crepe-dressed mannequin: "We're running out of champagne, for God's sake, where'd it all go to?" Blake, who has had just about all of the Pudding's hospitality he can hold, leaves, with a few companions. The kids are still waiting on the sidewalk across from the Pudding. It's 1 a.m. and a policeman is telling them to move on, go home, but they scatter, regroup and wait huddled in the circle of the streetlight...
...Hara's preoccupation with the upper class and its foibles (George Frazier of the Boston Globe commented after O'Hara's death that "he knows about court tennis and custom tailoring and chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
Smellies King. One of the newest wrinkles in T shirts is the Shirt-O-Gram, which features in large capital letters a Western Union-style message. Cost: about $7 for up to 15 words. Californian Chris Engen, 27, who created Shirt-O-Grams, custom prints the shirtfront messages and sends them anywhere in the U.S. One typical message: DEAR BARRY. CONGRATULATIONS. THE RABBIT DIED. PLEASE CALL...
...custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James's obsessive abhorrence of smoking is more than matched today by members of militant groups who, to protect their lungs and nostrils, seem determined to restrict the consumption of tobacco to consenting adults behind closed doors...