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Then the President, following his six-year custom, proclaimed that the next day would be a holiday. It would be called "St. Evita...
Doggy Hats. A Bergdorf customer is an unpredictable creature, especially when she reaches the rarefied air of the fourth floor, the store's famed custom department where evening dresses start at $495 and suits can be bought for as much as $1,000. There, Bergdorf's own stable of crack designers turn out more than 1,500 original models of hats ($52.50 and up) and dresses (up to $1,750) which have little trouble competing with the clothes of Dior, Path, Balenciaga, etc., which the store also sells...
...fastidious soul once ordered a navy suit on the fourth floor, and asked for a swatch of material so that she could have her new Cadillac painted to match it. Another customer spent days at Bergdorf's buying piles of clothes before a trip to Europe. When she got to London, she cabled frantically that she was short of clothes. Would Bergdorf's please send her 24 more outfits, in beige, grey, black and brown? One matron delighted in buying $60 Bergdorf hats for her dachshund; another regularly bought ermine capes for her granddaughter's doll collection...
Yale's ingratitude began to manifest itself more obviously in the middle of the 18th century, when, by stoutly defending the stern Calvinism of Edwards, it succeeded in attracting students whose parents were growing suspicious of Harvard's increasing "liberalism." Harvard, by this time had abandoned the custom of flogging students for college offenses...
Orthodox Judaism tries to maintain the letter of the Law. To the outsider it sometimes looks like literalness and nothing else. It is a religion that demands strict, hour-by-hour adherence to sacred custom. Promptly at sundown each Friday night, the Sabbath begins, and Orthodox Jews are required to be indoors (to travel in a vehicle on the Sabbath is counted as a sin). Twenty minutes before sundown, the housewife lights the candles which will burn through the Sabbath's 24 hours; any other lights must be turned on before that time. Synagogue services are entirely in Hebrew...