Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom of Mr. Phelan to give large dinners at expensive restaurants. Sometimes he entertained 80 or 90 guests. During the course of the evening Mr. Phelan would grow sadder & sadder. He would request the house crooner to sing an Irish song. During the singing Mr. Phelan invariably wept. He then tipped the singer according to the copiousness of his tears. On the basis of these tips was compiled the above wage scale. The beneficiaries, who did not know Mr. Phelan's name, called him simply "The Big Mick from Down Town...
...seems to have become a custom in correcting; the frequent errors occurring in your newsmagazine to begin with...
Among wild rumors in Zlin last week was one that "the Bat'a warehouses are piled from cellar to roof with 25,000,000 pairs of unsaleable shoes." Contrary to his usual custom Tycoon Bat'a was not in the luxurious cabin of his plane when it took off but perched up beside the pilot. A story flew through Prague that the pilot, when found dead, had a bullet through his head. Even if this were true no coroner of Zlin could be expected to confirm a fact so damaging to the House...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...
...will see-all the world will love me." Thus spoke the little French girl who, soon after her death in 1897, became known to all the world as "The Little Flower of Jesus." Beatified in 1923-the Roman Catholic officials waiving the custom that 50 years must elapse before a "cause" is begun-she was canonized in 1925 as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...