Word: customers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life. In China no great moral stigma had commonly attached to graft. It was the custom of nearly every official who could to collect it. For the colossal purchases Chiang had to make, he could not afford the normal luxury of graft. To find someone he could trust to purchase war planes the Generalissimo turned at last in desperation to his own wife. She it was who pored over aircraft catalogs, dickered with hard-boiled white salesmen, and is reputed to have had several Chinese officials of her Air Ministry shot to reduce thieving...
...hoped that the arrival of the Japanese would mean at least a return of peace & safety, were shot down on the slightest pretext until there were scores of bodies in the streets. Houses and shops were looted, women raped and the whole city ravaged according to an immemorial custom of war. Even fleeing refugees with whom the Japanese caught up were looted of their belongings. Only after the Japanese soldiers, drunk with victory, had been out of hand for several days did officers get them under control...
...skiers, whose numbers are increasing 100% each year, the National Ski Association last week took steps. The association, a member of the Federation Internationale de Ski, believes that U. S. skiing has reached the point where only teachers of proven qualifications should give skiing instruction, as is the custom in Europe. To gain this approval, plus a handsome diploma, potential U. S. Ski-meisters journeyed to Bolton, Vt. to be inspected by Otto Eugen Schniebs, head of the newly formed American Ski School...
...able to get much satisfaction out of the recent Harvard football victory over Yale, for the reason that, in accordance with old custom, Harvard takes on a weak opponent on the Saturday before the Yale game, while Yale on that Saturday takes on a strong opponent at Princeton...
With a show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty...