Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin had a great habit of ordering his playmates around and was generally permitted to have his way. Once I said to him: 'My son, don't give the orders all of the time. Let the other boys give them sometimes.' 'Mummie,' he said, lifting a soil-streaked face, 'if I didn't give the orders nothing would happen...
...when his father died a year ago. Three years ago he was on the afterguard of the America's Cup contender Whirlwind, built by his friend and star boat rival Landon Thorne. Adrian Iselin, looking very foxy with his trim mustache, sharp chin and twinkling eyes, makes a habit of arriving cautiously at the dock two hours before a race to keep an eye on the weather. He wins most in light airs. It is his system to keep moving at all costs, away from the mark if necessary, while his opponents stand still with their bows pointed...
...last, inglorious attempt to gain the transient rays of public favor of a certain type, he threw aside his habit of bagging cats for a neighboring Medical School, and took up politics. When however, both the city editor of the Boston Post, and the managing editor of the Boston Globe refused to exonerate him publicly from leading the movement to "Buy American" he was compelled by the pressure of academic engagements o give up his career, and forfeit his life for the benefit of this creators...
...Champlain stopped at Quarantine. Manhattan ship reporters leaped aboard, gathered in the children's play room. Professor Piccard reluctantly (he fears the Press; TIME, Jan. 16) descended from the captain's bridge, sniffed at the reporters, ran. They were smoking, "a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking...
...Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district attorney of San Francisco at the age of 25, audiences can foresee what will follow: a courtroom scene in which Jenny...