Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point the Munson Steamship line offered to transport the mummies to Plymouth free of charge, if they didn't mind riding with a cargo of hemp. At the quay in Plymouth the United States Custom officers demanded itemized and minute descriptions of all the cargo. Here was another puzzle. The mummies had forgotten their names...
...against the Nicaraguans and relations should immediately be broken off. But if any further indictment of Sandino's tactics is necessary, it need only be stated that he actually had the temerity to "carry his dead off the field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there were no dead, though of course the gallant American...
...tradition by virtue of which so many Kentuckians can call themselves "Colonel." He appointed Thomas P. Middleton, his state commissioner of securities, to be a Colonel on his staff for the few hours remaining. Col. Middleton was thus rewarded for faithful services. A more interesting example of the Colonel custom was the case of John William Stoll Jr. of Lexington, Ky., whose father is a potent banker. John William Stoll Jr. became a Colonel on the staff of onetime (1915-19) Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley at the age of two weeks...
...Christmas communiqué lay ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...
Last week, following his annual custom, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, announced the election of 32 Rhodes Scholars from 32 states. The scholars elected were given proper publicity in their college newspapers, where, in most cases, their names had appeared before. Each one was, by definition, a male citizen of the U. S., over 19 and under 25 years old, above sophomore standing in some recognized, degree-granting U. S. college or university. In addition each had been chosen to go to Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose...