Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family still owns 60% of the company's stock, but Gosuke, who is president of the company, is no longer named Katakura. He married a daughter of the prominent Imai family and since there were no sons in his family took his wife's name according to custom. The deficiency of sons was promptly remedied. Today Gosuke Imai has two sons and two daughters, by one of his sons is the proud ancestor of six grandsons...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...that offering. Broker Ross found a dozen experienced brokers eagerly bidding against him, snatching up the stock under his nose. At each sale the price mounted. Trying desperately to fill his order he shouted hurriedly at the same time as another broker, had to flip a coin, according to custom, to see who got the purchase. By a sleight-of-hand he lost the toss, bid up & up. finally got the stock at 38, trembling to think what Marshall, Campbell's customer -doubtless watching the tape, seeing OWS sold again and again at higher prices -would say at such...
...bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock...
...dormitory regime has finally become accepted as a public enterprise at the Weld Boat House, the Cambridge Bear Mountain. It is a great pleasure to see nude humanity sporting on the planks, drinking in the beauties of nature and life-restoring violet-rays. Perhaps, if we are patient, this custom, instead of remaining a bathing and boating performance, will become a real cult, boasting a single purpose and a single underlying philosophy. A few stray scholarships for Neufahrwasser Students might even catalyze the process...