Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Roosevelt said: "The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination...
Occidentals asked, "What of the mother, and Baroness Tanaka?" Japanese replied that, even though an O Mekake, or "honorable concubine" may give birth to a child which is recognized as legitimate, she still continues in the status of an humble household servant. By ancient custom the child is removed from its mother's care at birth, and she first sees it again 30 days later, when all the household servants assemble to pay their respects to the new "Little Master...
Despatches from Rome last week indicated that His Holiness no longer uses his carriage drawn by a team of brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive-in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants...
...should be ashamed to think of his wife!* What she would think of you I know! When some funeral has been held for these heroes, when the beautiful custom of strewing rose leaves on the water has taken place, then you can write of Coli as "late" - not till then...
...Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over some variations dedicated to him by the tim id visitor, appeared to be amazed by what he saw, the panic-stricken composer fled from the house. Such different personalities will...