Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days it was the privilege and habit of the Tsars to stop their Imperial Train on the single track Trans-Siberian line at any point which fancy might dictate, while they picnicked, strolled in the woods, or received the homage of peasants. Meanwhile, for scores of miles up and down the line, local traffic would be suspended and of course all through express trains stopped...
...habit of independent thinking on books, prevailing customs, current events. University training the opposite of military or industrial...
...habit of quiet, unobtrusive, self-regulated conduct, not accepted from others or influenced by the vulgar breath...
...their Jackson day dinner last January (TIME, Jan. 23) in Washington, nationally important Democrats sat transported by the oratory of a mild-mannered gentleman from Manhattan. Some of them had read his most famed book, Jefferson and Hamilton. Some of them were in the habit of reading the editorials he writes for the New York Evening World. But few of them had realized what a whacking fine speaker he is. Last week, when nationally important Democrats met again in Washington, they elected the mild-mannered Manhattanite-Orator Claude Ger-nade Bowers, native of Indiana-to make the party...
...Wilder, an instructor at Lawrenceville School & author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a best-selling book about people in Peru, and a book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...