Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ulate resumed the presidential custom of walking to the San José post office every day to get his mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
...Arms and the Girl" opens, a cannonball crashes through the back wall of a barn, lands on the stage, and rolls directly toward an alarmed audience. The new Theatre Guild musical comedy is aimed at a target just as broad--the old New England custom of bundling--and it scores a hit almost as solid as the one by the cannonball...
...Guetary of the French stage. In the part of a runaway Hessian who is at first reluctant about bundling, he proves that he has an excellent voice, genuine comic ability and a charming stage personality. John Conte is a consistently amusing colonel without any qualms about accepting the bundling custom...