Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale in ships' stores. The action was taken on the recommendation of Captain, now Rear Admiral, Wil liam F. Fullam. Mr. Fullam called attention to the fact that men were often penalized for chewing gum in ranks or at quarters. He argued: "If men are encouraged to form this habit on board ship, the Navy deliberately invites them to do something one minute for which they may be punished the next. This is not right...
...room-leaving habit of "Bones" men has been burlesqued by members of other colleges, as for example the Princeton Triangle Club which more than once has inserted the sacred name in a line of its musical comedy and arranged that, as the line was read, several tatterdemalion vagrants in the audience should stumble to their feet and make for an exit...
...first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
...pointed out that "when Alexander first took command of the Macedonian army he gave his soldiers the once-over and ordered them to cut off their whiskers lest the beard afford a handle to the enemy." They have quoted Pliny: "The younger Africanus was the first who adopted the habit of shaving every day." Of General Burnside they said...
Further, and in close accordance with the Gospels: "Now, it was his habit to stay most of the time on the Mount of Olives, before the city, and there he also avouched his cures to the people. And there gathered themselves to him one hundred and fifty slaves, and of the populace, a crowd. But when they saw his power, which could accomplish everything he would by word, they urged him that he enter the city and hew down the Roman soldiers and Pilate and rule over us. But when knowledge of this came to the Jewish leaders, they gathered...