Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their habit of thinking of events as following each other in logical succession, excited the curiosity of some people as to what Calvin Coolidge might do after March 4, 1929, if his "choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst College, of which Frank W. Stearns [Mr. Coolidge's close friend...
Since many people do find Sir Harry Lauder's performances wholly or in part distasteful, what are his obnoxious points? Partial list: 1) His habit of performing character sketches between his songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry...
Standard Oil of New York. President Herbert Lee Pratt of Standard of N. Y., as is his habit in controversy, said nothing. He was waiting, his office announced last week, for the return from Europe of Charles Evans Hughes who advises him on trade relations with the Russian Soviets. Despite this announcement, President Pratt sailed with his family on the Aquitania last week for a holiday on a grouse moor which he has rented in Scotland...
...view of the purity of Jesse James's motives has been widely accepted, his actions included the killing of a very large number of persons, chiefly sheriffs, and on one authentic occasion he and four companions attacked 60 Union soldiers and managed to kill 52. He made almost a habit of giving poor farmers money to pay off their mortgages, but usually recovered the sum from the holder of the mortgage by violent means...
...door of Mansion House, Dublin, a queue of mourners formed last week, four abreast and stretching back a distance slightly greater than one mile. Within, tall white candles lighted the bier of a 34-year-old man robed in the habit of Our Lady of Carmel. His expression was serene. The pallid hands enfolded a crucifix resting upon his breast. This was Kevin Christopher O'Higgins, in life Vice President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. Three undetected gunmen had murdered him from their automobile (TIME, July 18); and last week Free State citizens seemed even more...