Word: habit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cissy Patterson spends most of her party hours at "Dower House," her estate in Maryland, once owned by Lord Baltimore. She is driven to work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder Cadillacs. Sometimes she appears in riding-habit, accompanied by her French poodles, who have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice...
...Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked a clover leaf to chew while playing, as has always been his habit...
...Just how we are to get back to self-reliance and quit demanding so much of the Government will test the wits and ingenuity of all of us. Habits are not easily broken, and we have gotten into the habit of expecting everything of the Federal Government. The longer we put off correcting this, the more dangerous it will get and the more difficult to meet...
...free man again, he found the sane world much nicer but also stranger than a mental hospital. What best evokes for him his asylum days is the worried expression of the people on the streets of New York City, their mutterings to themselves. After four years the only asylum habit that clings to him is counting passengers as they get on and off elevators, to make sure none of them has slipped off to commit suicide...
Because "noise travels long distances", rowdy Vassar girls must tone down voices and radios, since open windows is a "spring habit". Naked legs are shocking, it was decided, in the dining hall, in Arlington and Poughkeepsie...