Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your quiz promotes more careful reading. I am inclined to think most of us are sheer time wasters in our reading habit...
...plan of the Harvard Fund to promote the habit among Harvard men of making annual return to the University of a part, even though small, of the great debt which they owe to it is thoroughly praiseworthy...
Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...
...Smithsonian-Chrysler party was to be led by Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...
Herself. "I have endeavored to discuss courts and countries after the War in a more or less womanly way. ... I think I can claim to be the first Royalty to inaugurate the habit of going about without a lady in waiting. . . . But I have always been in advance of my time...