Word: customers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributed handbills accusing Teacher Olive Warren of "smoking and helping a man drink a bottle of whiskey." Last week a jury of farmers retired to decide whether or not Teacher Warren had been libeled. "Smoking and drinking by modern women," counsel for Mr. Bennett told them, "is an established custom. It therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women did such things." Soon the jurymen began wrangling loud...
...When the Lobby Committee disclosed his undercover connection with the A. A. P. A. at $600 per month Mr. Field, as custom required, resigned from the Senate Press Gallery...
...Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only one): to the President of the U. S. and his wife...
...first tableau is called by Stravinsky " The Adoration of the Earth." The tableau is " The Sacrifice," for to primitive custom a virgin be sacrificed before new birth is possible. A pagan prelude introduces it and the young girls encircle, glorify the one. Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance. Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil...
...There has developed on the part of students a delightfully informal custom of coming (either sober or intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...