Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...display, from the lowliest stinkpot to the "queen" of the show-a 45-ft. 5½-in. cruiser by the Century Boat Co., packed with spacious, gracious air-conditioned living for $61,670. Royalty is relative-this queen would be a mere lady in waiting to the great custom-built yachts of the world. And even at the Coliseum she was queen by a bare 3 in.; the Greenwich Yacht Co. offered one 45 ft. 2½ in. long for only $45,465, and there were four other cruisers 40 ft. or longer...
...time-honored custom. Until eight years ago, Rhode Island's Rudolph F. Haffenreffer, the Narragansett beer king, owned the 6,130-ft. Mount Hope suspension bridge on Route 114, which then averaged about 5,000 cars a day, paying 60? a passage...
...every soldier knows, greatcoats are never-no, not ever-worn on the parade ground at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point near London. Mindful of his own days there, Jordan's mitey monarch, King Hussein, carried the custom 14 miles northward when he turned up in ordinary service uniform to review the annual Passing Out parade at the R.A.F.'s Cranwell College in blustery Lincolnshire. No one dared to cross Jordan's stormy ranks, and for a frigid 45 minutes the R.A.F.'s top brass shivered along while hardy Hussein marched around. Chattered Station Commander Group...
...Manhattan's drab Lower East Side, a group of aged journalists made a momentous break with custom. For the first time in its 65 years, the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish language paper, began printing part of each issue in English. This was no territorial raid on the city's strike-silenced newspaper giants; it was a humble effort by the Forward to stay alive. Said Business Manager Adolph Held, a little sadly: "Now, maybe, our readers will show the Forward to their children...
...Jimmy Durante has shriveled away till he looks like a mere appendage of that incomparable proboscis, long may it wave. But age cannot wither nor custom stale his infinite sameness. In 1962 he is essentially what he was in 1950, when he made his last movie. He is Jimmy, a quite ordinary little fellow who looks slightly confused and absurdly belligerent, as though in total darkness he had stepped on the teeth of a rake, and the handle had popped up and hit him in the nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering...