Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the West appointment be rejected. The "power-trust" issue having been thus potently raised, many a liberal Senator joined in the Progressives' anti-West cry, but most Senators hoped they would be able to straddle. A majority of Senators was delighted to reflect that, by Senatorial custom, votes on Cabinet appointments are taken in secret?i. e., in "executive session...
...fact, the original purpose in building the Coffee House was to provide appropriate facilities for the genial institution of "Change." This was a time-honored custom of the merchants to meet on the sidewalk of State Street at about 1 o'clock as they left their counting rooms, and talk shop, ships, and politics for half an hour or so. The whole first story of the ambitious new Coffee House was devoted to a great Exchange Floor, but this probably saw little business, for according to the contemporary account of Caleb Snow, the merchants preferred to follow...
...above cut is taken from one of a group of early American year books which have lately come into the possession of the Baker Library. It is illustrative of the custom, which is still with us, of moving on the first day of May which had become a great evil: "May Day being proverbial for confusion, amounting to partial suspension of business. The first of these year books in point of time is "The Picture of New York or the Traveller's Guide," dated 1907. This gives a full description of the situation and harbor, history, geography, and geology, government...
...this great survey? He says it has no meaning and that he won't have anything to do with it. The Dean of George Washington is a graduate of Harvard. The ungenial mother snubs her own son. What is infinitely worse, she kicks against an irresistible and "thoroughly American" custom that almost has the force...
There are also interludes of dullness which can easily be cut out. A. E. Thomas. writer of the play, follows the custom of this season by prowling onto the stage himself. He impersonates a Vermont district attorney with an accent which he must have learned in the damp parlors of Manhattan...