On Dec. 24, 1937, in a White House decked with holly, mistletoe and a white-trimmed spruce, President Franklin D. Roosevelt — as was his custom — read "A Christmas Carol" aloud to his family.
LONDON -- The British Parliament is set to return to work in its usual baroque manner on Tuesday, when Queen Elizabeth puts on a gown and a crown and, following long-established custom, reads the new government's legislative program aloud in a voice bleached dry of intonation.
One reaction against the excesses of the theatre was the custom of reading tragedies aloud to select gatherings of intellectuals.
The Gramercy custom of reading poetry before the "family meals" that precede each service, however, met with resistance.
Before literacy was widespread, a person who could read would sometimes do so in public for the benefit of others, and well into the 19th century there was a custom of reading aloud as family entertainment.
It looked a little queer because while he had been told how to spell the words, he hadn't been told about the American custom of reading from left to right, so that the sign read thus, HCAE cent 1.
Jewish Americans, time and again, found it hard to believe that what they consider to be routine custom — women reading from the Torah — was still controversial in the Jewish state.
Also we really have a custom of reading each other's work and offering comments, supporting each other through the article submission process, and then eventually on the academic job market.
"I don't remember not being a Packer fan," says Steve Tate, who bought in during 1997 and 2001 sales and today wears a custom cheesehead reading "God, Family, Packers, Owner".
"I don't remember not being a Packer fan," says Steve Tate, who bought in during 1997 and 2001 sales and today wears a custom cheesehead reading "God, Family, Packers, Owner". "We grew up really poor in the Madison area and moved almost every year when I was a kid.
