Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avenue de l'Observatoire. He stood without a blindfold and told the soldiers to aim at his heart. Three of the firing squad were good shots and put three bullets through his chest, three more pierced his skull and one hit his arm. His body, following the usual custom was allowed to remain as it lay for 15 minutes. Many of his friends saw it and the representative of the military governor of Paris made the physical examination and reported back that the tribunal's order had been carried...
...custom born of experience that wherever two or three are gathered together, it is desirable to provide antechambers devoted to retiring, resting, washing, or seeking comfort. So in the Yard the inaccessibility of the dormitory facilities has necessitated the combination of flood control and relief work in the provision of two small rooms under the speakers stand, suitable both for members of the Harvard macroscope and for the general public...
Marriner Eccles' elevation last week was therefore in the nature of a celebration of Amalgamated's new independence. Moreover, it was quite in accord with old Mormon custom. The other Mormon sugar company, Utah-Idaho, has for its president Heber Jeddy Grant, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of _Latter Day Saints, who does not neglect his spiritual duties for sugar. It has been managed for many years by Vice President Willard T. Cannon. Similarly Henry Arthur Benning, vice president & general manager, runs Amalgamated, although its President Anthony W. Ivins was long another Mormon Church official. Inasmuch...
...Harvard faculty as well as by many of the guests. The various groups will march in the inverse order of rank, the professors first and President Conant and President Lowell marching last. The procession will be headed by the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk: a time-honored custom dating from the period when the boisterousness of Commencement made advisable the presence of representatives...
...Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have to turn out only once to hear all the candidates. To enter such a Democratic...