Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change was sponsored by Dr. Worcester, the Gore Hall proctors, and the members of the Dormitory committee. While the new system is only an experiment, it is understood that if it proves successful, it will be made a regular second-half year custom in the future. As yet none of the other Freshman Dining Halls have established club tables...
...Boston professional hockey team was returning from Quebec in its special car. At the border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...
...periods; he (Lasker) had been rushed into illadvised, catastrophical decisions. What kind of etiquette had this been? Dr. Lasker's answer was published while six international mentalities were vying in the annual chess masters' tournament in Manhattan. José Capablanca, was in the lead as was his custom, until he tied with Aron Nimzowitch of Copenhagen...
...Lampoon, departing from its custom of the last few years, will not issue its April parody of a popular magazine, this year. Instead, the Board will devote its attentions to an issue of poking tun at books and magazines of children's lore...
...COOLIDGE COOLS HIS HAND" said a whimsical headline writer. The news was that the President has temporarily given up his custom of shaking hands with callers at the noon hour. Cause: press of business as Congress neared...