Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charges . . . show the same desperation and lack of good morals as the Texas convention scandal . . . The Eisenhower national headquarters is not paying any delegate expenses. Many delegates have expressed a desire to meet with General Eisenhower, and they have been invited to meet with him. In accordance with usual custom, their expenses will be paid either by themselves or by. local committees, clubs or individuals...
Robert Benchley once said that "Romanoff's is the only place I know where the customer isn't always right." Chronic bores, cut-raters and devotees of the club sandwich have sometimes been asked to take their custom elsewhere, and more than once a letter of complaint has been tacked on the wall of the men's room...
Stearns, Charles E. Norton '52, Charles F. Merwin '52 and David E. Norton '55 are leaving for Alaska June 12 in a 1933 Henney Custom Hearse, in order to be "inconspicuous." "The thing weighs three tons and the trip will cost us each $160, but if it disguises what we're really after, it'll be worth the expense," Stearns said...
...morning last week, a white-haired gentleman of 68 strode into his lecture hall at Princeton University and, as was his custom, headed directly for the platform. As he neared it, the 700 students rose to their feet, and the whole room resounded with cheers. As everyone at Princeton agreed, it was an appropriate tribute: the inimitable Walter Phelps Hall, member of the Princeton faculty for 39 years, professor of history for 24, was retiring, and this was his last appearance in class...
...latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of Acupuncture. His Imperial Highness Prince Buu Loc, Vietnamese Ambassador to France, assured the 350 delegates from 16 countries that the Western world was at last recognizing the virtues of acupuncture -the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles...