Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the bathwomen speak no English and are usually, large, muscular, and determined to earn their rightful tip, most of them dealt with bashful delegates in the manner of a large policeman upholding the majesty of law and custom...
...duty of each member of the Academy, when he takes his seat, to pronounce an oration upon its previous occupant. Last week M. Valery said about the late "M. France" almost everything ". . . except good." Custom made it impossible to utter flatly derogatory statements; but Poet Valery said, with heavy sarcasm...
...poor children in Vienna who belong to those outside of work. They starve. I have mooch money. I give them some. I don't care whether they are white, red, yellow or green. They were poor and hungry. "Then I take apartment in Paris. It is a custom of Russia to make a mass in new house, and I ask choristers to come and I sing. When I come to my apartment I find crowds of children outside. They come round me shouting: 'Mr. Chaliapin, give us money! We starve!' "They are ragged and I am sorry...
...spite of your faults, I like your publication. I have been a subscriber since an early issue and I intend to continue with my subscription, but I just wanted to tell you that to me your custom of using unusual words is disgusting...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...