Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among ordinary people who actually bring up their own children the Lindbergh custom of going off to Asia or Europe whenever a new baby is born is not at all conducive of goodwill...
...manager if the fee were not paid as per contract. He could have demanded cash in advance or the filing of a bond for the payment of the fee. He did neither. Mr. Thomas' patrons suffered discomfort, inconvenience and perhaps financial loss through no fault of their own. Custom, in the forming of which the public has no voice, cannot absolve the artist nor his manager from responsibility...
...universal practice, with shpieler (players) going from house to house, to rigadoon and sing: "Hcint is Purim, morgen is ois, git uns a groshen, und varft uns arois." (''Today is Purim, tomorrow it's over, give us a penny and send us off.") The custom of Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading the Megillath (scroll) of Esther. Children like...
...though not quite so widely printed, naturally, in the papers, that the industry was afraid of an investigation of its methods of circulation, particularly the practice of employing children to sell the sheets in the streets. Mayor LaGuardia of New York has uncovered quite a different and more venal custom which may well have been behind the fourth estate's high-toned reluctance to enter the N.R.A...
...Debats. His international connections during the War were so powerful that, when the Germans took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their custom ers, munitions men have only one thing to fight - internationalism. As businessmen their aim is to keep each nation overarmed, to stir up nationalistic anxieties which only guns and shells and tanks can quiet. The de Wendels operate equally well on either side of an international bor der. One branch...