Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble with the industry, however, is in its distributing end. Dealers, owing to competition, have been forced to accept used cars at fairly high figures in selling new ones and in addition adopt part-payment systems. In consequence, purchasing expensive motor cars on a shoestring has become a commonplace habit throughout the country...
...them is "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment and disgust toward all the real business of life" has largely passed away; and the point has been reached where this type of literature forms a convenient and popular vehicle for the conveying of science, history, and religion to the masses. The habit of disapproval is too deeply ingrained, however, to allow the novel to escape scot-free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouerie Dr. Brian Brown unconsciously voiced this disapproval by saying that "Psychology is the hero...
...real field for practice in discussion seems to be section meetings; yet actually the procedure in the latter is little different from that of lectures. A natural reticence to display what might prove ignorance doubtless accounts for the lack of spirited debate; the habit of non-participation is easily acquired and becomes "proper...
...Story. We first meet youthful Tony walking up a street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...until it does stop," was the comment of the captain at' Police Station No. 1 last, night, when asked if he thought the recent $10 fines imposed on 15 undergraduates for neglecting to light the lights on their automobiles at night, would end their carelessness. "It's a dangerous habit and they've got to cut it", he added...