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...turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...custom to sing tenor in a church choir, it is also my custom to peruse the current issue of TIME when the service is other than musical, also it often happens that a young lady soprano reads over my shoulder with me, to our mutual profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...short, plump, roundfaced, grey-haired, swift-speeched, handshaking Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose custom it has always been to give weekly dinners to his Minneapolis employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foshay's Fall | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

College authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK-END | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

Prominent among, recent football reforms is the suggestion offered by the Brown Daily Herald of creating 150-pound varsity football teams which should represent universities along with regular elevens. The idea of light-weight football teams has its analogy in crew, where the custom has been long-standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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