Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undesirable and poorly paid that men do not want them. President Coolidge told the delegation that when a majority of U. S. women were unmistakably in favor wiping out all legal differentiation between the sexes, they would undoubtedly carry their point. He said, smiling, that men have a habit of giving women what they want...
...decide just what your standards are. In articles in which you have condemned pornographic magazines you have yet managed to give in your own columns a sniff of their odor. You occasionally lug into your news items terms not usually found outside of medical journals. You have an irritating habit of dubbing people with names according to their calling or accomplishments, a style of writing that gives an impression of veiled sarcasm from which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue for July 4) a little mud to throw at Col. Charles Lindbergh in your...
...stormy night so that he arrived before any of his competitor-colleagues. Of this feat, said the Herald Tribune's unconventional editorial last week: "Just what a foreign correspondent ought to be is Mr. Wilbur Forrest . . . Wherever trouble is brewing or news is breaking he has the habit of being first on the spot ... It is work like his which has given the Herald Tribune so notable an advantage in the collection and presentation of big first-page news...
...when the Federal Reserve System was instituted. He is a sick man, and it was for that reason that his visitors came to him in a body, so that he would not be obliged to exert his little strength to go to them, as had been his past habit...
Rome she finds "a dirty little anthill of Italian filth." Caesar, her lover, "talks like a very king of kings, but acts like a delicatessen-storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia...