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...spent a short time on the island in the early 1800s, was held responsible for "the land losing its fertility and the fish forsaking the shore," the islanders went on potting lobsters, growing vegetables and grazing cattle. They were safe in the knowledge that their economy rested on another custom, the origin of which was also lost in the mists of antiquity: the manufacture of poteen illicit whisky...
...From its original custom of rotating meeting places, and the practice of rotating business among members...
...folklore and custom of politics, Inauguration Day is open season for hearty handshakes, clinking glasses, the rustle of silks, and self-conscious twisting in rented tuxedos. But for the crop of newly elected governors who raised their hands in solemn oath across the nation last week, inauguration seemed more like an augury of trouble and crisis...
...Connecticut's movie-profiled Republican John Davis Lodge paraded to the State House in midafternoon, found that the Democrat-controlled Senate had refused to show up for the swearing-in as prescribed by law and custom. After a corps of lawyers had scoured the Constitution and legal precedent, Lodge decided he could do without the rebellious Democrats, was sworn in before only the Republican House just nine minutes before midnight...
...occasionally went for $50 apiece, and useless luxuries-men's garters trimmed in 14-carat gold, mink scarves for three-year-olds, diamond-studded car keys-were salable items again. In an offhand manner, a Houston oilman sent a new Cadillac to Europe to have a $5,000 custom body put on its chassis, with instructions to "throw the old body away...