Word: habitante
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Down the St. Lawrence, 150 miles from the doorway metropolis, lay Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still...
New Sounds. But there had been a change in the picturesque land. In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms. Its cornerstones were the church and the big family, an economic necessity in the rural economy.
His father's name was Noah and his mother's name was Minerva, but he is merely Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught. Although Noah was a Confederate Veteran and Edgar was born in Virginia, the Judge is a Republican and a habitant of Oklahoma City. He is one of...
Dunster House is less jingoistic in its offence. The chief objection is that some members of tire house already presuppose that membership there entities them to a superior attitude. Outsiders protest that an otherwise ordinary student imagines himself a member of a social uppercuts through his habitant in Dunster House...
Germany, having passed from one type of despotism, appears to be threatened with another. Hugo Stinnes evidently has enough confidence in his power to defy both government and workers alike. So far he has made no bones about his intentions: absolute control by the Industrialists. Nor for France would realization...