Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as the name of "Morgan" was heard, Mr. Anderson showed signs of special alarm-a common and popular habit beside the Potomac. He attacked the approval of the merger by the C. & O. stockholders as a "stock manipulation and a financing-rigging scheme." As to details, however, Mr. Anderson failed to specify. Just how these matters were relevant to the fairness of the Van Sweringen merger plan, he failed to state. Ex-Secretary of War Baker demanded that the scope of the inquiry in the future be limited. The I. C. C., impartial but sweltering, reserved its decision...
...Lucky Devil. In the days of Wallace Reid, they had a habit of putting him in a racing automobile whenever ideas dried up. The people went home happy. Applying this same formula to the mildly similar Richard Dix, one finds that human nature still reacts feverishly...
...Lady Randolph Churchill's habit of wearing about her neck a little medal with the portraits of her two sons created a sort of fashion which led to similar commissions on the part of many other people. . . . The Queen** greeted me with a good morning in a gentle, agreeable voice. . . . 'Do you play bridge?' the Prince asked me. 'No, Sir, 1 have never had the opportunity to learn, nor do I possess the necessary mental concentration for the game,' was my reply. . . . There was a light tap at the door and a messenger entered...
...government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...
...York Times. "The Times is in the habit of printing all the news it can lay its hands...