Word: queue
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Primitive Pleasures. There, clad in a long blue gown with scarlet cuffs, his hip-long queue carefully braided, the suave ruler, who looks like an Asiatic humpty-dumpty, held court. His ornate audience-chamber was furnished with occidental armchairs, Chinese tables and innumerable glass cases crammed with exquisitely gowned Japanese dolls...
Tired of standing in line to buy food and clothing, British housewives last month sent an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government (TIME, July 23). Now they have evidence that standing in line with market baskets really makes them sick. The British Journal of Physical Medicine and Industrial Hygiene last week published a definition of "queueitis...
Another symptom: British housewives, led by a clergyman's wife, last week rebelled against queuing up for all foods, signed an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government...
...power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they may express them, where their wives are to go to queue up for state rations, what education their children are to receive to mold their views of human liberty and conduct in the future? The socialist state, once thoroughly completed in all its details and all its aspects, and that is what I am speaking on, could not afford to suffer...
...narrow old Rue Cambon, in front of the Chanel perfume shop, a double queue stretched half a block long. Forty fighting men, some with the mud of Germany still on their boots, pushed into a jewelry shop in the Rue Saint Honore. A perfume shop in the Rue de la Paix was closed at noon; two days' rations had been cleaned...