Word: queues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend and manager, Jack Elliott, ex-songwriter and Hollywood producer of TV commercials. Vicki is a 23-year-old platinum blonde whose generous measurements match Gina Lollobrigida's (36-22-35). By the time Vicki got to London three weeks ago, British nobility was forming a queue...
...Moscow. Some 1,300 members of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics are on their way to the Kremlin, walking down the Mokhovaya or the Volkhonka through the snow, or arriving by taxi. At the Borovitsky Gate, while fur-capped guards inspect their passes, they queue up-solid-looking citizens in fur hats and fur-collared overcoats, some in the uniforms of high-ranking army and navy officers, others in the picturesque costumes of their distant countries. Most of them display medals awarded for services to party, state and industry, for all are Communists...
Ever since the middle of the war, well behaved Londoners have patiently queued at recognized bus stops to await their chance, in order and decorum. To its friends, queueing up is a symbol of British fair play; to its enemies, a sign of genteel regimentation typical of the new British welfare state. Either way, only the vulgarest opportunists ever sought to bypass the queue by climbing aboard the open rear platform of a halted bus between stops. Last week, however, once respectable middle-aged businessmen and elderly ladies were kiting after stopped buses like hounds on the scent...
Relatively few Americans care to sit through a symphony program; fewer still would think of standing through one. But for Londoners, standing is natural when midsummer rolls around and the Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall get going. A good many of the queue-hardy, in fact, stand all day, sometimes four abreast, in lines stretching around the hall and down the street. When the doors open at 6:45 p.m., they plop down their 2s. 6d., break for the arena floor, and go right on standing. Those with the best positions (i.e., as close to the conductor...
...break with the past had to be felt, simply and simultaneously, by all Turks. Ataturk looked about for the significant gesture. In India it had been salt-making in defiance of the British monopoly; in China it was cutting off the queue. Ataturk chose to attack the fez, traditional symbol of Ottoman citizenship. "The fez is a sign of ignorance," said he. He laid down a deadline: after that date, no brimless headgear. Some Turks, unable to find hats with brims, wore their wives' hats: better to look silly than to risk losing your head...