Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to your article on p. 30 in your issue of Aug. 9, entitled "Franciscan into Jesuit" and describing the historical inaccuracy of the garb of Marquette, which was changed from a Franciscan to a Jesuit habit, as a student of history I am reminded that Father Marquette died near the present site of Ludington, Mich, in 1675, and La Salle did not start on his Western trip until 1679 and his spiritual companion was Father Hennepin while Marquette's companion was Joliet. . . . I do not find any historical record that La Salle ever saw Father Marquette...
Perhaps I reflect his habit when I am amused occasionally by some TIME writer when he takes a high dive after your elusive style and comes up covered with teeaweed...
...Salamanca, but that was in 1812, by Wellington. Today most obvious local indications that a war is going on are the signs above bombproof Reiugios on many street corners, and the fact that all street lights are extinguished at 12. Since not even a war can break the Spanish habit of dining at 10:30 p.m., the old-time profession of linkboys has been revived by newsboys with flashlights who light the Novelti's patrons home...
...late August day on one of those Southern New England trains which are in the habit of slowly running from Boston to Woods Hole. The train being in mid-journey and no immediate prospect of things quickly becoming either better or worse, the Vagabond was perhaps justified in assuming his habitual vacant air, which is to say neither better nor worse, glad...
...from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose in America where color lines are strictly drawn and traces of black blood must be concealed if possible. That is all the more reason why English ladies shouldn't disfigure their nails...