Word: habit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitiably imbecilic as to believe that the modern habit of calling torpedoes, mines, blockades, sieges, battles and bombs 'sanctions' alters their nature so completely that to vote for sanctions is to vote for peace...
...collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains travel only about 10 m.p.h., take three full days to make the trip. Pride of the line is the Addis Ababa flyer, a weekly express that in the dry season covers the 494 miles in 36 hours...
...many years the House has been in the habit of voting from $1,000 to $2,500 for memorial portraits of its Speakers to hang on the crowded walls of the lobby just outside the Chamber. (Before that, deceased Speakers got their photographs stuck up in the Speaker's room.) First oil to make the lobby was a portrait of Henry Clay by Giuseppe Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged...
Roscoe Pound was 12 when he entered the University of Nebraska. Husky and fast, he played football and baseball, formed a habit, which he kept up until a decade ago, of trotting one mile each day. After graduation and a year at Harvard Law School, he worked in a Lincoln law office a few years until one day his employer called him in, said: "Roscoe, you know enough law. Go see the county bar examiner. And take along a box of cigars." The examiner opened the box of cigars, noted that they were his favorite brand, reflected: "Well, Roscoe...
...France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility to the U. S. A nervous man, he had a strange habit of tearing off the corners of papers he read, rolling them in his fingers, putting them in his ear, throwing them on the floor. He worked constantly, with concentration, and with a deepening sense that his advancement was less rapid than his labors should have secured...