Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtually in sole charge of the administration of the finances of Germany, since he will be the umpire of the Commission and will have the deciding vote in almost every case. This results from the fact that the French and Belgian members of the Commission have been in the habit of voting together as have the English and Italian members...
Newton Victor. Another harness-horse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...
...accident of his birth is one of the funniest things about this thoroughly American versifier. When you meet him, you will find an earnest little gentleman, with a habit of talking swiftly and seriously, in a twang that is unmistakably U. S. A. He was born in Vienna?of American parentage, to be sure. However, any Viennese tendencies he may have had were safely obliterated by college training at the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices...
...situation has been complicated this year by the habit of residents of Gore and Smith Halls, of exchanging rooms overnight. This practice has disrupted the efforts of the janitors and of the postman...
...sole charge of the administration of the finances of Germany, since he will be the umpire of the Commission and will cast the deciding vote in almost every case. This is due to the fact that the French and Belgian members of the Commission have been in the habit of voting together, as have the English and Italian members...