Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently trying to foster a habit of "newsing," which is to reading as feeding is to dining. Your ideal subscriber is the snappy chap who rushes into a feeding place, glares because no stool is vacant, spots the man who is up to pie, takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...many of your articles are so well written and interesting that we have fallen into the habit of cutting them out and pasting them in a scrapbook. Now, of late, many of your cleverest articles appear on both sides of the page. What shall...
...course, club tables are the habit of mankind, or was the habit till vast numbers of people took to living in flats or lodges and taking their meals rather at haphazard. Nevertheless, many of the private clubs, the Harvard Union for considerable periods, and private combinations outside of the college commons have always existed. Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, was a member of a dining club in a private house, throughout his college life, and friendships there made seem to have outlasted his total life...
...late afternoon sun of yesterday sank no deeper wherever late afternoon suns have a habit of sinking than did the spirits of those few straggling Seniors who left Memorial Hall without ever noticing the picture of one venerable gentleman, height Boylston. The first of the annual "Ask Me Another" examinations had passed into history...