Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet, including the genial Winston Churchill, Lord Cave, Lord Cecil and Colonel Amery. As they wrung his hand, they noted that the returning diplomatic hero had for once chosen to appear publicly in a crinkled grey lounge suit instead of being austerely and formally attired as is his usual custom. Mrs. Chamberlain, who had accompanied her husband to Locarno, was all but overwhelmed with flowers; and outside the station, by special fiat of King George, a state coach waited for the son of famed and beloved...
...them one can only commend remembrance of the many times that French cabinets have been made and remade since the beginning of Post War ministries. In fact to the careful observer, and an American should be that, nothing more, it seems that changing cabinets is as much a French custom as changing style. A critical, nation with the power of an administrative whimey France is able to keep her seats of the might warm from friction And, it is apparent that she is content...
Every spring at Harvard, a quarter century ago, it was the custom for a large number of baseball nines, informally organized, to play an elimination series for the Leiter Cup. We hope this Leiter Cup Series is still a popular fixture, for we can think of no other in undergraduate sport, with so much to recommend it. In the first place, it coaxed into fancy baseball suits and out onto the diamonds more than 200 men who would never have tried for 'varsity or class nines. Secondly, it didn't confuse it summons to play with appeals to college...
...omission of "Mr." where the Negro is concerned is a custom as old as the Negro problem itself - so why affront we Southerners by sticking it under our noses? You are never too old to learn, so why not stand corrected...
...accordance with the English custom, no judges decision will be rendered. The teams are trying to win the support of the house, the verdict being in the hands of the audience alone. The vote will be taken by written ballots which will be collected by the ushers and counted under the supervision of the official tellers, Mr. Lourie and J. W. D. Seymour...