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...screen or curtain) concealing his women, a Maharaja who forbade mention of his name said: "The purdah is a mark of gentility. A purdah woman would be discarded at once by her husband if he discovered she had shown her face to a stranger. However there are exceptions. The custom has been broken by the reigning family of Gondal...
...Second of four automobile salons showing high-priced and custom-built cars; at the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan...
...Harvard squad will have a fuller satisfaction than the prestige of a national title. Whatever the outcome, it will have maintained one of the finest traditions that Harvard knows. It is not a custom built upon the wavings of banners, sporadic enthusiasm, nor even upon the roots of time; it is deeper than any or all of those; a tradition that has endured through the possession of a mutual respect and understanding...
...month "Murray Hill," farce by the actor. Leslie Howard, produced at the Copley four or five seasons ago. The controlling element is in that happy stage of adolescence in which it fancies itself as so many "born actors." For many years past, it has been the distinctive and creditable custom of the club to act plays, often notable, that would other wise go unproduced in Boston and Cambridge. Now it prefers a shopworn farce from the Copley, appropriately containing a "mortician." Backwoods universities as those young gentlemen probably call them do better with their "dramatics." Boston Transcript
Moreover, tourists sailing on nearly-empty steamers in the off season have become accustomed to receiving luxury accommodations for the minimum fare. With the number of sailings so drastically cut this pleasant custom must...