Word: customs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fees, entirely extralegal, went into a small tin cashbox and were divided among the Controller's staff from time to time. Three clerks, whose terms of city service and "fee" collecting were 24, 34 and 45 years, were suspended, protesting indignantly at an affront to a custom older than the memory of politicians...
Every 1939 Custom Imperial Chrysler sold last week had as standard equipment a hydraulic clutch which eliminates any mechanical connection between the engine and the wheels. Called fluid drive. Chrysler's innovation removes the necessity for gear shifting and clutching except when a car is pulling heavily or backing...
...most moving of Coffin's verses deals with an old rural custom of marking children's heights upon the wall, a custom which he fashions into an appealing metaphor called "The Family Stairs." He draws heavily upon the emotion conveyed by understatement for an effect of quiet charm. Again in "The Race" and "When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute...
...wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
...will be the first complete and intact collection of records ever available to historians as it has been the custom of Presidents to take their papers with them," Morison told the newsmen (who were eagerly awaiting the human interest). He added that "the Roosevelt papers will pass under the control of the committee, the archivist of the United States, and the Librarian of Congress, and would be available to historians and scholars immediately...