Word: customers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column or so to Correct Usage in the Display of the National Flag under all ordinary circumstances. The problem is especially puzzling if it is a question of hanging the flag on a cord stretched across a city street, but even this is, I believe, provided for by custom if not by regulation...
...hostess-sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. After dinner the President and Mrs. Hurley went to a reception at the Congressional Wom en's Club, leaving Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann behind. Mrs. Gann did not attend with the Vice President because the club had failed to follow custom by electing her president. After the reception President Hoover cut red tape, escorted Mrs. Hurley home...
Citizen Hunefeld had reason for his early morning haste. Twice before had he proudly led the public line into the White House for the New Year's Day Reception (a custom originated by President John Adams in 1801) and now he almost ran to be again the first at the White House gate on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Governor Roosevelt, contrary to custom, withheld his message until just before delivery became plain when the legislature heard him reiterate the Smith plan and then add in his own right...
Fortnight ago in London, in accordance with ancient custom, Westminster School (St. Peter's College) boys produced Terence's Phormio (The Parasite). The hoary College Dormitory, designed by famed Sir Christopher Wren, has housed similar productions each year since 1729. Older than the Westminster tradition of struggling for a tossed pancake on Shrove Tuesday is the annual presentation of a Latin play. It is also customary for the year's bright scholars to write a prolog and epilog and last fortnight the London Times bowed to custom by reproducing these learned appendages fully-four fat columns...