Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME follows the almanackers' custom. in numbering the Presidents as they have come. Thus, though George Washington had two terms he is numbered only once...
...people come to services there from all walks of life, all races and creeds. Rector Ray is the third rector at the Little Church Around the Corner in all the 80 years of its existence, his immediate predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector Ray's interest in theatrical people and things, Dr. Houghton invited him in 1923 to be vicar, with the right of succession. Three months later Dr. Houghton died...
...judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show's custom), killed and eaten at some rich Christmas carouse...
Their arrival at South Station was preceded by a throng of reporters, anxious to interview the unusual arrival. The snake, however, was not put on exhibition for fear of the cold, but was rushed immediately to the Museum. There he will be carefully entertained as is the custom with visiting snakes...
When Stover was last man for Skull and Bones, and thereby entered his charmed existence as the greatest Senior under the elms; there were only the dud explosions of the professional reformers or the envious non-quites to cry down an antique custom. Conditions charged in the next couple of decades, but yet it fell to the Junior Fraternities to take the blame. Tap Day might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that...