Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential Palace, the outgoing Premier, M. Michalakopoulos, was present, according to custom, when the Pangalos Cabinet was sworn in. The following dialog was reported...
When addressing a foreign government, custom and propriety demand that a foreign minister write it a note. But there are occasions when notes are ineffective. Then a foreign minister may address himself, say, to the public, talking loud enough so that the foreign government in question may understand...
Following the announcements of the elections for the coming year, President Lowell will read, according to custom, the list of individual gifts of twenty-five thousand dollars or more. Included in this list are payments on bequests or pledges made more than a year...
Time was when beer flowed freely in the Yard on Class Day, it being thought perhaps, that their imminent departure from the old place would cast a gloom over the festivities and render Seniors melancholy when they should be most jovial. But times have changed, "lest one good custom should corrupt the world". Yet Class Day remains much the same as before, for Seniors are by nature gay and frolic some at this particular time. The trials and tribulations of four long years are past and happily surmounted, and the future is full of smiling promise...
...custom long honored at Princeton is the compilation of senior statistics. Before leaving Nassau each class commits itself upon such vital questions as: "Who is the best dressed man in the class? Who thinks he is? Who has the finest legs...