Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereafter no lady declined. All danced, defying ancient Turkish custom...
Nominated by his classmates of 1902 Mr. Wendell was elected by the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association in accordance with the custom of the chief marshals being selected each year from the class which will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
About the year 1800 it was the custom for boys in Merrie England to amuse themselves by whacking dead cats up and down he gutters. In the course of time some of the boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
That afternoon, had the diplomat and his wife been extremely agile, they could have called on seven other Cabinet members who were holding receptions in keeping with the annual custom. Only Attorney General Sargent, whose wife had gone home to frosty Vermont, and Secretary of the Interior Work, who is a widower, did not serve tea. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, with his son Paul, received at his apartment on Massachusetts Avenue...
There gentlemen were quick to explain that this was not an old Lampoon custom but a Christmas present. Whedon, when interviewed, declined to comment, but Bob Lampoon, who was appointed guinea guardian extraordinary, suggested that this was not a surprise in so much as the Lampoon had been keeping birds of one feather or another for some time...