Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Wave Length. Clifford presents a serene front to the world and is outwardly patient and smiling at all times. But he is a serious man who gets to the White House early-a habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark...
Saint-Gaudens had gone to work at twelve as an apprentice cameo-cutter, and early acquired the habit of taking infinite pains with details. He spent 14 years on the Shaw Memorial (see cut) and he modeled 40 Negro heads for it before deciding on the 16 he finally used. Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams' New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens' talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him just the man, Adams thought, to create a memorial for Mrs. Adams' tomb...
...rounds last week, Maurice Thorez hired a make-up man to conceal the damage to his face-to save himself embarrassment in the National Assembly. Hero Laurent, interviewed in his barracks, commented: "I used to know this damned vodka rather well, but I'm no longer in the habit of drinking it. I must have been bien soûl [pretty plastered], and somebody must have said something I didn't like. So I hit him. Then in return they beat me up; I guess they had to suppress me, after all. There is no political meaning...
...Roosevelt. In March 1933, the week he was inaugurated President, TIME printed a brief quotation from his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It summed up two viewpoints on that quality in him which his friends called decisiveness and his enemies called arbitrariness. Here is the quotation: "Franklin had a great habit of ordering his playmates around and was generally permitted to have his way. Once I said to him: 'My son, don't give the orders all of the time. Let the other boys give them sometimes.' 'Mummie,' he said, lifting a soil-streaked face...
...Worthy Habit. This is scarcely strange, since among millions of Christians religion itself is little more than a worthy mental habit, socially manifested in church attendance often more sporadic and much less disturbing than regular visits to the dentist...