Word: customs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over any creed, custom, dogma...
...miles west of the Turkish-Iran border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed to keep their arms, should continue the time-honored custom of paying taxes by bargaining with their tribal chiefs. Kamâl Atatürk gave them an answer-30,000 Turkish troops, a fleet of war planes. The rebels were dug out like foxes from their mountain holes, butchered to the tune...
...until about six years later, after they had moved to Lincoln, that Father & Son Coryell began to dress like twins. Somewhat tentative at first, this custom speedily became systematic with the Coryells. When one buys a suit the other goes along and gets an identical one. Neither ever buys a necktie, a shirt or a pair of socks without taking a duplicate home. The Coryell taste runs to costumes of some audacity and each ensemble is numbered to save time in the morning. Whichever Coryell wakes up first telephones the other and says, "I'm wearing the 23 suit...
...Coryell III). The two families live in ten-room houses on opposite corners with direct telephone connection, facing each other across nearly identical yards. Lorraine has an identical set of toys in each house. For several years the Coryells dined in each house on alternate weeks, but this custom has been discontinued for reasons undivulged. Every morning, however, Junior calls for his father at precisely 7:30 a. m. and they march in step to the Coryell Sr. garage, get in one of the two Coryell Packards, the Fierce-Arrow, the Cadillac or the Ford, and drive to work. They...
...layman's address on Baccalaureate Sunday is by custom designated a sormen. Perhaps I may be permitted, therefore, to sum up all I have to say in advance by quoting the famous text from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans...