Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless and coarse...
...postwar vogue of the T-formation on gridiron after gridiron has made the old-fashioned single-wing formation seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...
There, the colt-named Battlefield (by War Relic-Dark Display)-pricked his ears and began to run. By last weekend, when 14 of the finest two-year-olds in the U.S. went to the post for the 61st running of Belmont's Futurity, Battlefield had won so many stakes he was the odds-on (19-20) favorite. In twelve starts, he had won nine times, never been out of the money, earned...
...Frost is a poet with few disciples. Today's bright young men look to the intricate, mannered, literary methods of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden for their models. They grudgingly admire Frost as a kind of 19th Century relic, resent his commanding popularity, and smart under the reproach: "If Frost can make himself intelligible...
...hitch occurred when the vehicle that was to bear the reliquary to Rome arrived at Orvieto. It was an ordinary closed moving van. The people gathered in the plaza complained that this was not good enough for their relic. They muttered that the reliquary should be taken to Rome in a truck with a glass top and sides, so that all the countryside could see it and realize what a great sacrifice they, the people of Orvieto, had made...