Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement concluding TIME'S article-"Such matters [used v. new barrels] are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks"-is nearly as irrelevant as saying that gin producers prefer not to age in barrels...
...hand and a notebook in the other has been wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid...
...custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island...
Concerned also for their thriving business in new barrels, Kentuckians threatened to legislate their own state definition of aged whisky if the ruling stood. Such matters are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks...
Tshekedi ranged all his authority and prestige against Seretse. "Chiefs pass and are forgotten, but the country goes on," he said. "Custom has been broken. It was a great wrong marrying this white woman. My nephew has killed us. He has made a precedent that the chief can marry without regard to or consent of the tribe." He insisted on a divorce: "The white woman is not suitable for Seretse and the tribe...