Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, from 9 to 5:15, all eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from the editor or one of his associates. The carbons of the replies are then circulated to all the other members of the editorial staff...
...editors have done considerable research into the etymology and practice of bundling (partly undressed, unmarried couples occupying the same bed for warmth). Said an early Connecticut historian (1781): "Notwithstanding the great modesty of the females ... it is thought but a piece of civility to ask her to bundle: a custom as old as the first settlement in 1634." Another writer reported: "When a girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied...
Married twice legally, five times according to Indian custom, Grey Owl travels with a French Canadian wife and a protector in the person of President Hugh Eayrs of Toronto's Macmillan Co., his publishers.* Mr. Eayrs's duty it is to keep the Grey Owl away from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done...
...Patterson, president of United Air Lines, it seemed that Blackett-Sample-Hummert were trying to tell the U. S. flying public that it is not only more comfortable on American Airlines, but safer. It is a custom that no airline ever violates the united front against anti-flying psychology and earthly means of transportation, for if a customer is told that the route of one airline is needlessly risky, instead of taking another airline he may take a train...
...custom more honored in the breach than the observance...