Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choking cloud of dust. Baldwin, Coolidge and Poincare chewed their cuds, mooed stolidly as Hindenburg and Mussolini were led back to the stalls from which they had escaped to battle. Tourists, visiting last week the late summer cattle fair at Frauenfeld, Switzerland, noted as "quaint" the immemorial custom by which local farmers name annually their prize cattle after world famous...
Meanwhile, as is his custom, Wilfred hopped about on the local rector's lawn, nibbled many a grassblade. One-half of Wilfred belonged to Robert Timlinson, the rector's son, one-half to his daughter Kathleen, aged 6. His Majesty, riding out to hunt, passed the window where Kathleen lay recovering from a long illness. Kindly...
...colors." The following, of the new models, have features which may be termed new: Buick. "The artistic upholstery and interiorware patterns in the beautiful new Fisher Bodies for 1927, were created especially for Buick . . . the finishes on the new Buicks are in Coronation tones, the year's smartest custom effects . . . for the first time a vacuum- cleaned crank case to protect closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor...
Their appeal heard, registered, the Sheriffs observed their immemorial custom of presenting each doorkeeper of the House with a bottle of port wine...
...custom of a monthly magazine called The Mailbag (monthly; published in Cleveland; slogan, "All about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years...