Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broiling Barcelona day last week 30,000 children marshaled by hundreds of priests gathered for an open air prayer festival at which it is a local custom to pray masked. Many and many a child sneaked off the sweltering mask during the long prayer, but all remained devoutly motionless kneeling under a grilling sun. When the prayer ended 28,000 tots rose and prepared to march away but 2,000 continued to kneel as though stupefied or paralyzed in the attitude of adoration. Doctors pronounced them sunstruck. Several hundred had to be rushed to hospitals, all were expected to recover...
Social workers know Dr. Cabot's great love for music. He is a good violinist, likes to attend symphony concerts. Twenty-five years ago he started Boston's custom of singing Christmas carols on Beacon Hill. Every Christmas since then he has led the singing band himself, except for 1917 when he was serving in France. Then he amused the people of Bordeaux with his Christmas carolling procession...
Diplomatic custom requires that one must go away before one can be received back with due ceremony. Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired...
Five years ago New York Homeopathic Medical College began a custom of giving golden diplomas to its graduates who have practiced 50 years. At last week's commencement exercises, gold diplomas were ready for the following (but none of them appeared...
...proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane in the State institution...