Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first principle of sound government, whatever may be its magnitude. The fault has undoubtedly lain in divided responsibility and accumulating confusion of records rather than in any individual delinquency. Responsibility is bound to float rather uncertainly from one to another of an elective body of student officials; the custom of changing all class and college officers annually but widens, of course, the breach for error. But the mere fact that blame lies in the system rather than on specific heads does not mitigate the ill-effects of the resulting inefficiency...
...custom of discarding straw hats on September 15 is not a new one. It originated forty years...
...last week. At a marriage ceremony in Grodno, North Poland, a priest asked his oft-repeated routine question, added "Let him speak now or forever hold his peace." A woman spoke, "The groom is not a man," she said. Investigation followed. The groom explained that it was her custom to dress as a man, marry wealthy women, get their money...
...avoiding praise amounts to genius. She will never be a popular figure, except among grateful Bulgarians, who know of her by word of mouth. Her meticulously written Memoirs are the confessions of a very earnest soul which has nothing to confess: "Upon rising in the morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game. ... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other...
...constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball and the first battery knocked it out-of-the-lot.* Mrs. Coolidge munched chocolates and watched vivaciously. John Coolidge, though there were many hits, errors, wild throws, etc., looked badly bored. The President left after the third inning-his baseball custom...