Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward VIII announced that he will carry on his late father's revival of the old custom of personally giving, on Maundy Thursday (April 9), Maundy Money to "deserving" poor to the number of the King...
Well might Japanese financiers shiver as the Cabinet declaration went on to promise to "reform finance and economy . . . through measures for improvement and stabilization of the people's living so that all the subjects of the Emperor may enjoy their life. . . . The Government will not be shackled by custom but will effect reforms suited to the times...
...other years," Captain Palmer said "It has been the custom to notify the captain of the opposing team if you were to use a substitute. This year this has not been the case, and we were very much surprised to see Boyle in the game...
...custom until 1813, this diploma was engrossed rather than engraved as later became the case. The size of the document in those days depended upon how much the individual recipient wanted to pay. The president merely granted the degree, and the student had to seek his own engrosser and arrange his own price...
...Deal days every member of the Cabinet entertained the President once a year at dinner. To save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly...