Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with the normal heritage of broken noses, trick elbows and collapsible knees, old football players often take with them into later life the habit of explaining contemporary events in terms of gridiron metaphor. Last week Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Lester Bowles Pearson, onetime University of Toronto football coach, said at an Ottawa banquet...
Seldom, either, has there been such monotony of murder. The one-man reign of terror that ends with Richard's death on Bosworth Field not only demotes the play from tragedy to melodrama; it eventually gives horror the colorlessness of habit. Toward the end, Shakespeare's Richard III is very nearly as bad as Shakespeare's Richard...
Improve the Service. For Budd, such up & coming railroading was a matter of habit. An Iowa farm boy trained as a civil engineer, he began railroading at 20 on the Chicago Great Western. After a spell of work on the Panama Canal, he became an assistant to Empire Builder Jim Hill on the Great Northern. In 1919, a few years after Hill's death, Budd, at 40, stepped into Hill...
Behavior Quirks. From childhood, when he discovered that by feigning illness he could avoid parental discipline, Proust had suffered from asthma. The illness was, he knew, at least partly "a nervous habit," and though it struck him severely through most of his adult life, he refused to submit to thoroughgoing treatment. Instead, he isolated himself in his cork-lined room. Stung by the Dreyfus affair and aroused to literary ambitions, he found himself "weary of insincerity and friendship, which are almost the same thing." After his mother's death in 1905, the shaken, 34-year-old Proust withdrew from...
Three of Exeter's starters will be familiar faces to freshman captain Bill Hickey since they are veterans of the Exeter quintet that Hickey captained last year. Exeter has several players who stand over six feet, but playing against taller teams has virtually become habit to the medium sized Yardlings...