Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading parts, the various minor roles, and the famed chorus, are to be held on Wednesday, March 15, with all members of the club being eligible for parts. Theodore Viehman, well--known New York director has been secured to direct this production, and as has been the custom in the past there are two acts, involving many different scenes...
...consisting of Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman oarsmen, will go to their respective training camps at Red Top and Gales Ferry, on Saturday, June 3, and will thus have only a little less than two week's practice on the Thames course. In previous years it has been the custom for the crews to go to their training camps at about the same date, but with nearly three weeks of practice ahead of them over the four-mile course...
...Vienna it is the custom for children confirmed at St. Stephen's Cathedral to be taken afterwards for a drive through the Prater, then to a pastry-shop where they are allowed to eat their fill of schlagobers (whipped cream). Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little...
...abolished from the United States." When finally voted upon by the 25 or 30 present at the meeting. It was decided that such censorship should be abolished. This first meeting of the new council has met with gratifying enthusiasm, and the officers announce that it will be the custom to open the debates to all members of the Freshman class...
...ancient custom the pope lists his joys & sorrows of the year. Joys for Pius XI were: the spread of missions; Catholic Action; the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (TIME, June 20); the completion of the new Vatican art gallery; increasingly friendly relations with the Italian government: felicitations on his 75th birthday last May; the agreement between Bolivia and Paraguay to cease fighting for 24 hours at Christmas...