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...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
Patriot's Problem. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board informed a young woman that she no longer need share-the-ride with a passenger who had a habit of changing to his work pants in the back seat...
...Anglican (or Episcopalian) deaconess is not a female deacon. She may not read Morning or Evening Prayer, or preach, which a deacon can do. Like a lay sister, she wears a habit, assists the parish priest in educational and social-service work...
...Navy's habit of secrecy had suppressed the names of the ground commanders on Saipan although the fighting outfits had been identified early in the battle. Last week the Navy completed the record, added some familiar names to the Saipan story...
Joseph Barondess, one of the Founding Fathers (in 1900) of the I.L.G.W.U. A Russian-born Jew, the son of a family of rabbis, Barondess endeared himself to needle trades proletarians by his "golden voice," "hypnotic powers over an audience," his habit of "quoting the Bible in the manner of a cultivated freethinker." He spent "the last decade of his life as an insurance agent, selling policies to the workers in the needle trades...