Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delicate Balances. Bill Jansen fits his job well, for his most trying task is that of preserving a delicate and highly disconcerting series of political balances. By an unwritten law of New York politics, the mayor's Board of Education-to which Jansen answers-consists of three Protestants, three Catholics and three Jews (at present also, one of the nine is a Negro). The schools cannot afford to risk the veto of any group. In picking his own board of superintendents-the general staff which executes his commands-Lutheran Jansen likewise keeps a balance of three Protestants, three Catholics...
...Despite an unwritten Harvard-Yale agreement to de-emphasize football, Hall had scheduled games with Navy and Army...
Every year about this time, poets, young girls, and fashion writers frantically seek fresh, unique unwritten about harbingers of Spring. One used to be able to point to Braves Field, and connect the activity there with the first swallow. But the Braves are no longer in Braves Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony...
...them. They shoot together at a nearby skeet club, where the dues are a year and members work their own traps; they go bird hunting and like to fish for dolphin off Florida (which they did last week). At home, the Prices and their three sons long had an unwritten rule that nobody would make outside dates on Sunday nights, when they all ate together in front of the fireplace. The sons are now grown, but Lawyer Gwilym Jr., 30, brings his wife and Gwilym III to continue the custom. Alfred Roberts, 26, is a physician, and the youngest...
...Queen's leisure hours are all too few, and no one of whatever political creed would presume to criticize where she chose to spend them; but what shocked everyone was the ensuing publicity, for it is an unwritten law in Great Britain that when a King or Queen pays an entirely private visit, no mention of it should appear in the press...