Word: customs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testimony in a divorce case. Court Interpreter Vincent D'Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. The sign of the horns, he said, should not be confused with...
...students out of the isolation of their own field of concentration and show them that a subject can be approached in more ways than one. Spasmodically a few other Houses pursued the same plan, but it was only the initiative of a few men that saved an extremely beneficial custom from dying out. Here is a palliative for the injuries of over-specialization, yet very few people are even conscious of its existence...
...been the custom heretofore for the college marshals in torchlight processions to go on horseback but as only one of the nine marshals of the upperclasses has ever ridden a horse, this part of the ceremony will be omitted this fall...
Graham is a one-class outfit, its three body styles with slick highbrow radiator fronts and no running boards. Price: $965. For $130 extra, it may be had with custom appointments or supercharger equipment that steps the basic 90 h. p. up to 116. Optional is a steering-post gearshift...
Lincoln. All are custom-built except the V12 Lincoln-Zephyrs, which are fundamentally unchanged in design, still look modern after three years. Price...