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...there be no confusion on this matter: diplomas in English are not isolated evil, but symptoms of a growing blight, a Dutch Elm disease of the soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...study, getting on with his next book, The Decline of Pleasure. She, meanwhile, is upstairs disproving his title ?flaked out like Perrault's princess at least until i p.m. When they were married, he fondly told her that he would bring her coffee each morning, a custom that lasted some ten or twelve minutes. "The first time I brought it, having gotten up quietly," he recalls, "I gently woke her, and nearly got blown out of the room. She told me that must never, never happen again. And it never...
...hound," of course, by custom one refers To SPECIAL (INCOME TAX} COMMISSIONERS...
...making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian -or Hawaiian-type -music and dancing, and sighing and song, and love...
...amateur shoe designer at 16, Vivier came to the U.S. in 1929 as a designer for Delman's, remained for 25 years. Seven years ago, Vivier returned to Paris as Dior's chief shoe designer. For his custom-made spring collection, he fashioned 70 new chisel-toed models that range in price from $120 to $300. Vivier also produced 60 models for his ready-to-wear line that sell from $17 to $30 a pair...