Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the custom in debates in Cambridge this year, there will be no consultation between the judges prior to their rendering a decision. This is done in order to prevent a complimentary unanimous vote being given when one of the three judges may have disagreed. The audience will also vote, and while their ballots are being counted, the chairman will give a brief speech...
...delicate formalism and ritualistic sobriety now in disuse. Even an early nineteenth century dance manual showed sings of a growing decadence, the passing of the classical restraint and solemnity of the dance of puritanical epochs. Couples were admonished above all things, thus implying that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed to be an enjoyment. But the somber faces of some might lead to the belief that it were a solemn duty being performed." This, of course, is not the case. And while these level-headed gentlemen will by their enforced patronage...
InQuiries at the Union proved that this custom had been entirely unknown in recent years nor could traces of it be found elsewhere in the University...
They visited national shrines and imperial tombs to report formally, according to Japanese custom, their wedding to the spirits of their ancestors.* They were scheduled for return to Tokyo...
Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany: "One Karl Klaffing, a factory worker of Kolditz, wrote me a letter announcing the arrival of a seventh son. Herr Klaffing recalled the custom of the onetime Kaiser, who volunteered to act as godfather whenever a seventh son was born. I wrote Klaffing a letter congratulating him, stating that I would gladly send the baby a little gift, but that I wished to be excused beyond that...