Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never had prohibition. We have the amendment, and we have the Volstead act, but with it we have liquor and I venture the suggestion tonight that there is more liquor in the country today than before the passage of the amendment. Why? Because a great many citizens acquired the habit of storing away a supply for future time in the cellar...
...country at large. Urged in his civics courses and from his reading of the daily press to do his duty as a citizen by voting, his first opportunities for so doing come at a time when they may well be lost, and with them the chance to form the habit while still impression able from such sources...
...Victory is his habit−the happy warrior−Alfred E. Smith." (Franklin D. Roosevelt in his nominating speech...
...proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer. The abduction, done in a spirit of fun and platonically, comes close to Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole has gone...
There is a self-concealing habit about Nominee Hoover's mind at its self-conscious moments. As a result, people are more surprised than otherwise when they discover, in Hoover speeches or reports or quoted from personal correspondence, sentences and sentiments which have unmistakably come from the natural man who lives somewhere inside the Beaver...