Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade of mutual fidelity unstained by even a suggestion of difference or inconsistency; a blending of two lives such as are lived by the average husband and wife faithfully devoted to each other. . . . The relationship of husband and wife was consummated and confirmed by their subsequent cohabitation, acknowledgment, habit and repute." While New York mistresses were losing their legal standing last week, New York wives were also being shorn of some of their power when Governor Lehman signed four bills effecting the first changes in the State's alimony laws in half a century. Up to last week...
Sugar Crash. Sugar soured the nature of El Gallo. While Cuba remained prosperous no one objected violently to President Machado's habit of lining his pockets with a little of every money-making concern on the island. His extravagant interest in ladies was excused as Latin temperament, as was his passion for bloody and immediate vengeance. But Cuba's prosperity depends on sugar and sugar crashed long before Wall Street. Following several recoveries and relapses after its first crash in 1921, sugar collapsed completely in 1930. The money that he so ardently desired could only be collected from...
...second son, tall, curly-headed William Randolph Jr., 26, has also been divorced but was last week cordially received at the ranch on his second honeymoon. From his father he inherits a high-pitched voice, a mannerism of drumming fingers & feet, a habit of reading newspapers on the floor, and a capacity for quick decisions. From his mother he inherits graciousness, sentimentality. Well-liked throughout the organization, "Bill" has honestly tried to apply himself to being publisher of the New York American within the limits imposed by a crown-princely aura and his father's incurable autocracy. Also...
Senator Hearst's gangling son Willie got on neither at St. Paul's School (Concord) nor at Harvard. He was shy. and had too much money to work out of it the natural way. His early habit of entertaining the boys to win them stuck to him. The striking things about Hearst's prankish, college days, which were twice interrupted by "rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny...
...make it seem alive has not yet been worked out and probably never will be. The grammar can only be called a necessary nuisance. On the whole the modicum of French which will suffice to get a passing grade is surprisingly small, and the instructors have a happy habit of easing up on the final examination. Those who are not far enough advanced to take French 2, and lack the initiative to learn French by reading it, have no alternative but to take a deep breath, plunge in, and hope to rise at the end from a wearisome swim...