Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theoretically, should a roughly equal number of seats be won by each of the three parties, then after the election there might be formed any one of three different coalitions-Conservative-Liberal, Liberal-Laborite, or Conservative-Laborite-to carry on the Government. The King-Emperor would be obliged (by custom) to bestow the supreme political office of Prime Minister on any man designated by any party or coalition able to control a majority of votes in the House. Upon such seeming quicksands as these how shall one even lay the lightest...
...fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening Transcript. And what is worse, the ready spice of polite dinner conversations will now be salted down with the trivialities of unassisted literary search...
...imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. On Daugherty, one juror disagreed and he was discharged. Miller began to serve his term last April. He behaved himself well in jail and was to have been discharged next July. Last December he was recommended for parole. In spite of the custom of releasing convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last hour in office. Then, safe from the jibes of the Senate which was on the point of adjourning, Mr. Sargent...
Guardedly whispered was a bit of palace gossip that the youngest of the Royal Infantas, Princess Maria Christina-17 and high strung-almost fainted when her father, the King, invoked an old Spanish custom and bade her assist him to prepare for burial the corpse of Queen Maria Christina, after whom the Princess was named...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, according to custom, took no part in a case before the U. S. Supreme Court, last week, in which his niece-in-law, Elizabeth C. Taft of Detroit, lost an appeal to escape a $2,040 tax on her 1923 income...