Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Secretary, Dr. Bowlby, in a few remarks presented to the President printed documents containing the address of former President Coolidge, and other Presidents, on the value of the Christian Sabbath and Sunday. The President thanked the delegation for calling and made a courteous response, but it is the rule of the White House for those received by him not to quote the President, and, of course, we could not violate the rule...
...acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule in the making of which I had no voice...
Pitchers Guy Bush of the Chicago Nationals and "Swede" Walberg of the Philadelphia Americans have also been exceptions to the general rule of the sad and battered pitcher. Both are fastball pitchers (like Grove) depending chiefly on their arms, little on their heads...
...Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament, listen to debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck...
Until the Labor Party first made itself felt, members of Parliament served without regular government salary. A hardship to many, the rule of unsalaried M. P.'s was popular with tradition-loving Britons who felt that, come what might, Britain would always be governed by Gentlemen...