Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pius XI says his daily mass in the bedroom where his predecessor Benedict XV died in 1922. (This is the quaint custom of respect which Popes have long paid their immediate predecessors?to pray in the death chamber.) Soon after he attends a second early mass. Then to his private apartments for breakfast of coffee with milk, bread, butter...
...attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...days gone by, it was a custom for the Senior and Freshman pictures to be taken on the same afternoon. The Seniors, after their picture had been taken, would hold up the next picture until the first year men had thrown out enough money to them to pay for the Senior class Picnic...
...know how many members of the Supreme Bench concurred in this extraordinary decision. It is the custom of the Massachusetts Court to announce its decisions as a body, and not to give voice to minority opinion, if such exists. This reticence does not bind other great courts, such as the United States Supreme Court or the New York Court of Appeals. Nor do such other great courts refrain from making their first concern the one thing of paramount importance, the material value of the new evidence...
...censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that no one was executed last year and that crime has been considerably decreased during my premiership...