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There is an old House custom that when a gentleman breaks a window, he reports it, pays the resultant bill, and that is that. Those who are not gentlemen do not take responsibility and may well get away with it. But if they are caught, there is always the question of whether there is room in the House for cheats...
...emphasis at Lowell under Perkins falls on tradition and custom. Of all the traditional observances the favorite seems to be the weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...north over the bleak, desolate, road to Munsan that night, in the true spirit of independence, but with no designs of conquest, was the widow Ahn Nam-chang and her little family. It was the first full moon of the lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that...
...economic controls and taxes. Then he opened the conference for questions on those subjects first, on other things if time allowed. Exactly 33 minutes after he walked into the room he gave the reporters a quick grin, waved goodbye and walked out. thus ignoring the Roosevelt-Truman custom by which the senior White House correspondent, U.P.'s sleek-haired Merriman Smith, ends press conferences with a "Thank you, Mr. President...
...Prices and their three sons long had an unwritten rule that nobody would make outside dates on Sunday nights, when they all ate together in front of the fireplace. The sons are now grown, but Lawyer Gwilym Jr., 30, brings his wife and Gwilym III to continue the custom. Alfred Roberts, 26, is a physician, and the youngest son, Richard, 22, will finish Yale Law School next year. Price still talks wistfully of going back to the law, forming a firm with his two lawyer sons, and being "the elder statesman while they do the work...