Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have been in the habit of deploring the decrease in the study of the classical languages in American schools will be pleasantly surprised at the disclosures in the report just issued by Dean A. W. West of Princeton, president of the American Classical League, which has been conducting a three-year investigation along this line. "There are many signs in the colleges of an increasing interest in both Latin and Greek," reads the report in part. Of course, this does not mean that concerning many, or any, of the students it may be said, in the language...
...habit of not voting...
...Valera and his followers, a noisy minority, cannot see the wood for the trees, and they continue to advocate an Irish Republic- possibly because such advocacy has become a habit. For the same reason he possibly continues to hate England. Thus, always playing on the same string, he stirs wild enthusiasm in the bosoms of those who think as he does. His speech...
From this barren isle, which lies off the north-west coast of Africa and forms a unit of the Canary Isles, Don Miguel was in the habit of sending forth to the outside world violent protests against the cavalier manner in which Primo had treated him and also against the arbitrary rule of him that is called Primo...
...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...