Word: habitant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...
...eternity, where they have rested for some 300 years, some strange figures were exposed to 20th Century stares in the Mexican village of Tepepan last week. Workmen, removing the floor of an ancient church, disclosed 20 bodies, most of them dressed in priestly garb or nun's habit. All were mummified and remarkably preserved. But nobody was quite sure how they came to be there or what to do with them next...
When Sir Hubert, Burma's Governor, arrived in Rangoon a few months ago, he gave a reception in the palatial red brick Government House. During the Japanese occupation, Government House furniture, along with the habit of obedience to British rule, had disappeared. For the party, Sir Hubert's aides scouted up some furniture looted by the Japanese. The guests were fascinated by the decor. Burman leaders wandered about Sir Hubert's rooms pointing to chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north...
...Florida were not Bob Young's whole concern last week. As usual, he kept in daily communication with his New York office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...