Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria for the night. On the way, the perky little M. P. espied his Trophy glittering in the Italian Line window. Bubbled he: "Fancy that...
...ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait but the Library Committee makes the final choice...
...absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...
...game was a pushover for the Rods, who at no time encountered even so much as a scoring threat from the Indians. But, as is the custom, the game was one thrill after another from the end to the beginning, the crowd hired to watch the J.V. game with Holy Cross all being attracted to what the CRIMSON called its field...
Last week's show was not only the Institute's 33rd, but marked the looth Anniversary of the birth of Founder Andrew Carnegie. For this anniversary exhibition 21 nations, more than ever before, were represented. It is an old Carnegie custom to ask gallery-goers to vote on their favorite canvases, and give a prize to the most popular picture at the exhibition's close. From past experience critics dared not hazard which this might be. but found the following pictures worthy of special merit...