Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this eating before mass some innovation in Catholic observance? Was so high a prelate as the Archbishop subtly establishing a new custom? Silly idea! The esteemed Free Press, under normal newspaper pressure, which is inconceivable to the uninitiated, had made an error, an error easily forgivable when the reader reflected...
...uniforms which the University team will wear this year are to undergo a decided change from those formerly used due to an injunction by Coach Mitchell. The time-honored custom of wearing plain shirts has been abandoned and the Crimson players will open their season with the word "Harvard" emblazoned on their breasts...
Although it has generally been the custom for several members of the Harvard Baseball Advisory Committee to accompany the team on its annual southern trip during the spring recess, it is understood that this year none of the present committee wil be able to find time to go. Coach Mitchell, assisted by two managers will be in entire charge of the trip...
...trial for "willful but unpremeditated murder" spent most of last week locked in an iron cage set up in the modest Court of Assizes at the little town of Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts...
...Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry on his foreign policy before the League. M. Doumergue courteously went through the form of asking M. Herriot to form a Cabinet, since custom did not allow him to call upon the fallen Premier (Briand) until someone else had "failed" to assemble a Ministry. Needless to say, M. Herriot "failed" instanter-rather, he "declined" and "recommended" Briand as his successor. President Doumergue then called in the much harassed Aristide and persuaded him to form...