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...beard," in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. The custom is usually successful in averting trouble with the wife or husband, the gossip columnists and the public. "If Hollywood ever took off its beard," a comedian once remarked, "the public would not recognize it." A "hunker" is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee, and strike matches...
...anyone knows, Mrs. Robbins, the wife of a New York City health inspector and the mother of four children, is the first woman cantor in Jewish his tory. An intensive search into Jewish law turned up nothing that could bar her appointment, but the whole weight of Jewish custom was against it. Although women are movingly praised in Jewish scripture, they have always occupied an inferior position in the Jewish religious structure as ";a nation unto themselves." Born in Cavalla, Greece, of Russian parents, Mrs. Robbins moved with her family to Danzig in 1928 when she was only five, soon...
Bring the schools back to the local level and do away with laws. I double-dog dare the Supreme Court or the Federal Government to tell us we have violated a law if there is no law, nothing but a social custom ... If God had wanted another plan for the races, He would have done a better job than those nine nincompoops on the Supreme Court...
...could go to the House floor, it had to pass through the powerful Rules Committee, which was still waiting for a pay raise for its own employees. Since nearly every appropriations bill goes against some House prohibition, e.g., appropriations bills cannot contain substantive legislation, it has long been the custom for the Rules Committee to set terms under which points of order are waived during floor action. But not this time: the Rules Committee coldly sent Clarence Cannon's bill to the House under a wide-open rule, placing it at the mercy of every point of order that...
...their Mayflower Hotel accommodations at the national convention in Washington. Then the Ringley group dug up a Washington regulation against more than one parade a week in the city's streets. The effect of this was to force the Forty and Eight to abandon its longtime custom of marching separately. Preparing for this year's Miami convention, Ringley decreed that the Forty and Eight would again parade along with the rest of the Legion...