Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...
...newspaper is to survey news, we are devoting our best energy not to discovering the University's shortcomings and seeking to solve its problems but to making the paper more readable and more efficient in covering its field. With this aim it seemed expedient to depart from the custom of publishing an elaborate platform...
Perley Breed's 20 piece orchestra has been engaged for the entertainment, which will be held, according to the usual custom, in Memorial Hall between the hours of 9 and 3 o'clock. Applications for the tickets will be sent to the members of the class of 1928 in the near future. The list of patronesses and ushers, as well as the committee's other plans, will be announced later...
...planned. Opening on February 26 with a concert in Frye Hall, Portland, Maine, the instrumentalists will entertain at Phillips-Exeter Academy on the following afternoon. Their third concert will be on March 4, in Brattle Hall, Cambridge. This will be their only individual performance in Cambridge. Following their usual custom of giving a concert annually in New York City, the clubs will travel to the metropolis on March 5, where they will play in the Town Hall. The final performance will be in New Bedford on March...
Following its usual custom, the Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night," on February 3. "La Cena Delle Beffe" will be the presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...