Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taurus. Unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. Under this sign were born . . . Sir James M. Barrie, W. G. Marconi, . . . William Shakespeare...
...Rhineland] sooner than 1935 you will hurry along with the commercialization of your reparation debt and the fulfillment of all disarmament conditions, then we will be only too pleased to go. . . ." ". . . When he [Dr. Stresemann] takes a walk in the olive garden of Locarno he has the habit of stretching out his hand to receive rather than to give." Significance. At one stroke the problem of the Occupied Rhineland has been officially removed by the occupying Power from the plane of military security to that of financial security...
...quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...
...less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either, I hope that you will find here a welcome which will encourage you to pursue learning with the utmost freedom. We have a habit of dividing the members of the University into two classes, professors and students, but I often find myself dissatisfied with such a classification. It draws a very misleading distinction between our members, for I am sure you will find that most if not all of those who are catalogued as professors...