Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result men have not been observing them. Beginning now men must keep fit." However, Coach Stevens made exception of the Junior Prom, explaining that he did not object "to men attending the exceptional class functions, but rather to these week-end parties and to the chronic habit of stepping out and keeping late hours...
...decline in the stockmarket, while due to professional causes, has occasioned many second thoughts in the financial district, and the tendency is to take a not too rosy view of the business outlook. This may be due to the old habit of letting the stock ticker regulate one's optimism, or it may be rather more fundamental than that...
...perhaps, not strange that your Washington representative should have jumped to the conclusion that I left it angry. ... I went off to the Senate restaurant in a state of absolutely unruffled composure. When I am angry it is not my back but my face that I am in the habit of presenting to him who has angered...
...German newspaper denounced the German habit of promiscuous eating as "disgusting as the gum-chewing of the Americans." In particular the paper berated those citizens who go to hear Tannhauser and Wilhelm Tell accompanied with sandwiches, cheese, sausages. "Foreigners will get a wrong impression of the Kultur of the Father-land...
...discovered that men of genius have commonly disregarded the anguished cries of their stomachs. Napoleon, who is an example for almost everything, ate at all hours, nibbled sweets constantly, and finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet...