Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calithump In Woodbury, Conn., one William James Coutts was last week married to a Miss S. E. Skilton. This couple failed fo observe an oldtime Woodbury custom: they failed to provide free cigars to as many bummers as could elbow their way into the wedding reception. Therefore the small sons and nephews of these bummers (also the hoodlum daughters and nieces) assembled automobile horns, Klaxons, tin pans, fish horns, blank cartridges, a fire siren; gave the Coutts on two successive nights what the local press described as "an oldtime calithumping...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...their subjects reach the age of 70? Messrs. Mellon, Depew, and many another cheerful bigwig would relish well the jest. Would not many a reader prefer to scan while his idol is yet in the quick those shrewd estimates of attainment, and compendiums of little known facts reserved by custom for obituaries...
...company-by Publisher Curtis, Son-in-law E. W. Bok, Editor George Lorimer, and a few others. They dislike making a financial statement of their affairs. But to be considered at all on the Manhattan Stock Exchange a concern must file such statements at definite intervals. With this general custom Curtis Publishing has now complied. There are 900,000 shares of no par common stock and 182,707 of 1% preferred* which officials consider the equivalent of $30,000,000 capitalization. But last year the total net income was $16,040515 ($14,714,819 in 1924). The value...
...used to be Mr. Cabell's aim and custom to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings." He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will...