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Dismayed I am, however, that the author found such unrelieved monosyllabic expressions being voiced by Santas, shopkeepers and civilians as "Ooops!" "Oof!" "Ho! Ho! Ho!" "Bah!" and even "Aughh!" I wonder if TIME'S reporter paused long enough in any store to listen for a seasonal "Excuse me, please...
¶ True. Artist Joe Jones did base his painting on impressions of the seasonal scene in Atlanta.-ED.
The proposed merger seems to make good economic sense. National, which does its peak business in winter, has routes running north from its Miami home base to Boston, and west through Houston to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Continental, which carries more passengers in summer, has a route system fanning...
The seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens...
Though the Magi brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant Jesus, the early church for centuries forbade or at least discouraged gift giving at Christmas; the Puritans, for example, banned both religious and secular Christmas celebrations as pagan in inspiration. Even today the seasonal exchange of gifts...