Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longtime custom during the first week of every year, the Press last week printed a batch of 1935 prophecies from U. S. Businessmen. Newsreaders with memories long enough to recall similar predictions made on New Year's Day 1930 or 1931 or 1932 scanned last week's output with thoughtful amusement...
...befits the opening of reading period and its attendant miseries the University Theater is offering a program of genuine amusement. "The Pursuit of Happiness" was a delightful play and has been made into an equally enjoyable picture. The happy rediscovery of the colonial custom of bundling gives the producers good opportunity to present a situation which is highly amusing and possessed of just the proper amount of suggestiveness...
Five formal dinners and five formal receptions are the toll of ceremonial entertainment which custom and etiquet demand of a President. Last week President Roosevelt began his seasonal duty, to end only with Lent. The new White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding...
...life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted was a bribe, adding "it is an old Chinese custom." The State Department, which knows that such customs in China, Latin America or anywhere else will not be changed by official indignation in Washington, sees nothing to be gained by arousing the wrath of the foreigners with whom it must deal daily...
...custom, two new human animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...