Students from Genoa University held aloft a washline fluttering with men's and women's underwear to protest an appeal to the Genoese by the recently elected Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to refrain from hanging wash across the city's narrow lanes, a venerable local custom, to avoid esthetic offense.
[C5.] Readers Speak, About 'Bespoke' An article last week noted that the word "bespoke," a venerable English word meaning "custom made," had found its way into information technology circles.
Last week on this page we noted that the word "bespoke," a venerable English word meaning "custom made," had found its way into information technology circles.
The shotgun made famous by Dick Cheney's faulty aim was a Perazzi, a venerable Italian brand of custom-made guns.
The trio of movies may be as apolitical as possible, at least regarding today's headlines, but the mere fact of their appearance, here and now, suggests a general mood that American destiny is inextricably linked to a part of the world that has its own venerable traditions and where the customs and laws are joltingly different from our own.
Although the Venerable Bede disapproved of the Celtic customs, he had high praise for Colman in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, considered to be the best source for Colman's life at Lindisfarne.
And even when money plays no explicit role in selecting a mate, courtship customs are governed by the venerable economic model of supply and demand.
Had the venerable but fusty house of Sonia Rykiel followed the usual custom of distributing the bags as gifts to influential people?
Best known for its handsome Victorian bathroom fixtures and reproductions, Drummonds can also fit you out with a custom cast-iron conservatory, or antique garden ornaments so venerable they seem almost druidic.
The venerable Mister Cartoon combined his love of tattooing and LA into his custom DW6900MRC-8.
