Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time it looked as though Owen Johnson was about to become embittered by changes in social custom he notes about him. His The Wasted Generation, although a most popular book, to me, at least, seemed muddy in its psychology; but after a new venturing into boy life in Skippy Bedelle he seems to have sloughed off his coil of weariness and there is renewed vitality of vision in Blue Blood. He has been married four times and lives in the town of his birth in the proper season; in Stockbridge in the summer...
...testimony. And only the guarantee of immediate publicity has been proved effective in making witnesses carefully consider, their statements. There was no large sum of money involved, and so no inducement to fairness. There was no party spirit, and therefore the inevitable lack of the American's time-honored custom of giving his political opponent the benefit of the doubt. What is more all those testifying were honest, had not been convicted or even accused of any crime, and so were without the requisite training in the business of life necessary to the infallible witness...
...days ago, the President of the Society instructed the Secretary to show a sign reading KEEP YOUR HAT ON near the entrance to the exhibition, this being an effort to start the European custom in this country. Charles Duncan, with a group of other painters, objected: "One should show respect...
...evidence is their custom of celebrating St. Charles' Day by veneration of some hair alleged to have been part of the whiskers of the saint...
...cent a point bridge games. Gradually his source of supply failed, and he turned his activities to the highly remunerative task of scientifically milking Harvard Square merchants. That he was a plausible young man is evidenced by his running up a $257 bill on M. P. Toohy, a custom boot maker on Boylston Street, and one almost as large at August...