Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contests are used to the matter of decisions, and that grumble as they may, it is not something altogether new and baffling to them; nor possibly, is it the first time they have damned a judge. In fact, the damning may be move a matter of habit than of irritation. In my own sport, if every judge that I have heard condemned to the bonfire here in America had gone his way then and there, there would be about three competent fencers left in America-and those merely because they have always been too canny to act as judges...
Once there was a tradition in Texas: "No law west of the Pecos." In the old days, brave and bad, the pistol alone was guardian of good manners. In slightly later times a judge, one Roy Bean, conducted a combined saloon and courthouse in which it was his habit to decide shooting cases in a few minutes so as not to interfere with the regular business of the court-white lightning. They are gone, those days. Last week another judge, one Mullican, travelled 150 miles to Langtry on the Rio Grande, there held court. Helped by 250 witnesses, scores...
...political alliances have the uncomfortable habit of being formed against some power or combination of powers whose activities are feared. As for Belgium and France, it is easy to see that Germany, holding forth the possibility of a war of revenge, is the driving force behind their efforts. To England, however, Germany is no longer a menace. Germany's navy destroyed, her colonies confiscated, her commerce shattered, England is only too glad to forget the past. If the proposed Entente is to succeed, it seems that France and Belgium must offer some object of combination more acceptable to English taste...
...streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken out. The dead were burnt at once. Those ministering to the pestilence-stricken went in and out wearing a sterilized habit, their faces masked. Doctors stated that a pneumonic rather than a bubonic germ was responsible for the disease, but awaited a final diagnosis. Deaths, which numbered 21 in 15 days, went on mounting...
Lafayette and Rutgers and Bowdoin and Tufts are practically pay-your-money-and-take-your-choice propositions. Picking Lafayette to win is logical but unsafe. It is an excellent game not to bet on. Tufts ought to down Bowdoin, but the Maine team has the habit of trampling on Tufts when it cannot beat anyone else. The Medford college will have to upset a persistent jinx in order...