Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of the great volume of discussions and criticism of the student apathy toward time-honored customs and activities which loomed large in the college life of earlier days, it is a little remarkable that no direct handling of the problem of what traditions might be dispensed with and what are strong enough to warrant their continuance has been tried. The custom which is losing undergraduate support has been left to a process of slow dying which is painful to many observers who cherished...
During several trips to Paris, the writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a loud blast upon his nasal appendage (regularly called "bugle" in the United States...
This habit or custom is very impressive, because it always occurs when perfect quiet otherwise prevails. The one able to blow the loudest blast is always rewarded by grateful smiles and looks of indulgence from his countrymen...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report last week, shook a warning finger at non-carrier holding corporations which gain control of two or more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its plan for rail consolidations "is very likely to be partially or even wholly defeated." The Commission admitted that for such a new threat it could not find an appropriate remedy...
Author Thompson quoted letters from booksellers in Winnipeg, Chicago, San Francisco, Toledo, Seattle, Atlanta, Cleveland, telling of complaints against the book, threats to withdraw custom unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that...