Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History's well-known prerogative of repeating itself is demonstrated in the researches of Mr. A. B. Hulbert, in the Atlantic Monthly. As the title of the article, "The Habit of Going to the Devil", indicates, this is not the first era in which moralists make a good living by denouncing the trend of the times. Mr. Hulbert lists quotations from American periodicals of about a century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state...
...should enable them not only to provide the most economic and satisfactory service within New England, but would also in her dealings with outside lines make New England the master of her own resources"); and changed investments ("I am wondering whether you have not been so long in the habit of investing outside of New England as to make it bad form to keep your money at home"). Commerce Director Julius Klein also accuses New England industry of narrowness. While studying 350 firms there, he found that only one had a business analyst. Like pre-War Europe this section...
their drink at all times water, a young stomach needing no stimulating drinks, and the habit of using them being dangerous...
...Observer comes first. The power and habit of seeing in minute detail were upon him from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains, of his children from infancy, of dogs, which always took to him. He would painstakingly count tens of thousands of plant seeds under his microscope. He devoted years and two fat tomes to barnacles. An invalid, he had to systematize his work rigorously. He trusted few reports save...
...remember Johnnie Dundee, the former bantam champion as the most self-assured little man I ever saw. He had a habit of bouncing off the ropes on top of his opponent during a match in order to get up momentum for his punches. But I saw him do it once too often. He hopped off the ropes full speed and met the outstretched glove of the other fighter. They carried him out semi-conscious fifteen minutes later. He had too much confidence...