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...reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl as his mistress to prepare her, according to strict native custom, for her husband. Gonzalo balked for moral reasons (senseless abstractions to the tribesmen) and because he really wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later...
...this according to custom. Also according to custom, the Cadets plan to start eating lunch in the Union at 11:15 o'clock, march to Soldiers Field via Dudley Gate and the Weeks Bridge at 12:40 o'clock, enter the Stadium at 1:15, and clear the field 15 minutes later. After the game they are dismissed...
Beginning this Sunday, November 7, President and Mrs. Conant will inaugurate their regular series of Sunday afternoon teas. As was their custom last year they will be at home and glad to see members of the Faculties and their wives on the first Sunday of every month, and to students of the University on the remaining three...
...severe blow was dealt to the custom of riding on the rails of New Haven streetcars to the games last weekend, when it was announced that anyone caught so riding would be subject to arrest...
Ford. Henry Ford is not an A. M. A. member and would therefore (according to custom) get inferior space at the Automobile Show proper. This week his debutante was on view on upper Broadway with enough changes to startle all comers. For the first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille...