Word: habitant
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...crackers, John D. Rockefeller Jr., no Milquetoast, rose up to deny the story. In a letter to the British publication, the Listener, John D. Jr. wrote: "The story .. . about my father's living simply on milk was entirely fictitious . . . Drinking milk was not any more of a habit with him than eating bread or meat . . . Milk was to him just another food ... As to [a] statement with reference to my father's being willing to exchange his wealth for a sound stomach, I can state unequivocally that with only such occasional indispositions as everyone has, my father enjoyed...
Knapp and Moore retained the open cake box, the forgotten pool room, and the traditional habit of handing out cigars at Commencement. And they established the shop among the elite smokers by importing their own Algerian briar pipes and stocking their shelves with ninety cigarette brands...
...also likes to manufacture verbs (e.g., to casualize-to employ casual labor), make up opposites (diseconomy, derestrict), and use unnecessary nouns as escapee ("We already have escaper"). He indulges recklessly in the not un-habit (not unjustifiably, not unduly unreasonable), shilly-shallies hopelessly in the apparent belief that "mistiness is the mother of safety." Thus, he will write, "In transmitting this matter to the Council the Minister feels that it may be of assistance to them to learn that, as at present advised, he is inclined to the view that, in existing circumstances, there is, prima facie, a case...
...Unnecessary Adjective: "If we make a habit of saying 'the true facts are these,' we shall come under suspicion when we profess to tell merely 'the facts.' If a crisis is always acute and an emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself...
...Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth...