Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin the day with prayer at Chautauqua and praised be God that we do! The founders of our country began the day with prayer and no one so far as I know has yet attributed our country's present financial condition to that custom. . . . To the thousands of friends of Chautauqua who know it and love it, a criticism of its traditions, its landmarks, and its monuments is like unto a criticism of Bunker Hill Monument, Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge, or of the custom of salute to the Flag...
Auburn displayed two lines of eights, two lines of sixes. The custom eight features a dual ratio rear axle...
...thought and Patriot's day is an unheard of occasion. The long put forth myth that the University had to pay a fine or else. . . if they held college exercises on these days has been exploded with admission from University authorities themselves that it was merely a matter of custom to count the days as holidays. This blows up the last rampart that was used in an effort to defend the University's position and it now seems a ripe time to inaugurate a holiday system which is convenient to everyone and affords a more pleasant vacation, in place...
Harriet Metz Noble Livermore summoned Manhattan police to her Park Avenue apartment at midnight, informed them that her husband, famed Wall Street Speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore, had been missing since midafternoon. He had started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar...
...holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia by an Orthodox priest and her first-born child...