Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that these twelve months are drawing to a close, it is fitting that, as a Nation, and as individuals, in accordance with time-honored sacred custom, we should consider the manifold blessings granted to us. While in gratitude we rejoice, we should humbly pray that we may be worthy of a continuation of divine favor...
...repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly is an old and dignified custom. It is an accomplishment requiring both courage and skill, and an occupation worthy of the highest intellectual and social orders...
...unchanging and could not have permitted this deviation from the established custom," explained one Paul Feil, Mormon, arraigned in Salt Lake City municipal court last week for disturbing the peace...
...fact, that net yet at any rate is he either Hampien or Barrymore. With that in the back of his mind, as well as his own private theories as to the manner of presenting the bard of Avon's plays he has gone ahead. Far from following the custom any path, he leaves the pomposity which suits but so few pieces anyway, and proceeds to tone ats Shakespere down. He in particular, but the supporting cast as well, render their lines as though they were of twentieth century vintage, and it was only after a hurried trip to a volume...
...jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...