Holiday Usage
The red star was commonly placed atop New Year trees in the Soviet Union, a tradition that continues to this day in Russia.
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Famous quotes containing the words holiday and/or usage:
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)
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