Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...
...Princess Margaret arrived in Paris for a busy four days of footloose fun. At the Hertford Hospital charity ball, she mingled with the best of the smart set, danced with Paul Auriol, son of the French President, and also came face to face with a brash American custom. A young Army civilian employee from Chicago threw royal protocol aside, introduced himself and asked for the next dance. Margaret was diplomatically delighted" to meet him, but, she said, "I'm terribly sorry, I seem to be booked up just now." The next evening at the home of Sir Alfred Duff...
...Pentagon in an uproar. There was an old and cherished custom that an admiral or general could retire to pasture after completing his tour as a top dog of his service, even though he was under the age for compulsory retirement...
Early in the summer of 1947, some bedouin goatherds came upon several manuscripts in a care near the Dead Sea. They had been preserved in leather wrappings, and were kept in jars. It was an ancient Hebrew custom to bury documents in this manner when they were threatened with destruction...
...Have Trouble." Bergdorf's special service (and the countless fittings, alterations, etc. that go with it) is so expensive that the store loses money on its custom-made department. Says Chairman Edwin's son Andrew, who last week moved up to the presidency: "Our custom department did better last year; it only lost $68,000 on a $1,000,000 volume." But what Bergdorf's loses on its custom goods is more than made up for by its profitable ready-to-wear department, where dresses are peddled for as little as $30. The store's biggest...