Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more important than they? If not, they had better begin at once to rear-range their ideas, because they are out of tune with the rest of mankind. I wonder if the editorialist realizes that in the English institutions after which these beautiful houses are modelled, it is the custom for the dais to be occupied by the men in authority? Or, by any chance, does our complainant feel embarrassed or ill at ease in the presence of those in evening dress? In that case, his dissatisfaction is perfectly understandable. Whether the columnist has shown bad taste or lack...
Following its annual custom, the Harvard Union will receive the broadcast of the World Series baseball games in the Living Room, starting this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. Three loud speakers are to be used, that any members of the University may be accommodated...
...back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...
...Imperial War Graves Commission will guard and protect it forever as a national monument. Sadly Donor Calder admitted that in the intervening years tourists have snitched from Hill No. 60 nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work...
Copper. Following last fortnight's bearish statistics on the copper situation (TIME, Sept. 22), prices were again revised last week. Big producers who had been quoting 11? dropped to 10¼?, then 10½. Custom smelters slashed their price from 10¼? to 10½. Rumors were rampant that many large properties would soon be closed down. Although bulls found solace in the report that Western Electric during the past six weeks has bought enough copper to supply the Bell System's needs for four months, and other large consumers likewise think the present levels attractive, bears replied...