Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departure from the custom of previous years, there will be a buffet supper, refreshments being served from from long tables opposite the orchestra dais rather than in the individual boxes...
Criticisms such as these challenge the value of usages well grounded on tradition and custom in many of our schools. But if any progress is to be made in improving the present system, it must be by the elimination of just such deep-set evils. President Lowell has rendered valuable service to the cause of American education by his penetrating attack on them...
...President Coolidge having forbidden them to regard their semiweekly visits to his office as "interviews" (TIME, Feb. 13), newsgatherers last week refrained entirely from submitting written questions. It was the end of a custom six years old. To take its place, President Coolidge instituted a voluntary announcement system. The effect was dull. After gazing mutely at the slim, deliberate fingers on the neat Executive desk; at the immobile Executive countenance, over which the skin is so much more loose and translucent than shows in photographs, the newsgatherers shuffled out with nothing more significant to report than that the President would...
...sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions...
...Cabinet of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke to the country, last week, through a speech which was drafted by its members but pronounced, according to custom, by His Majesty, from the Throne (see above...