Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked up, and like, the afternoon-tea habit. They are fluently using general slang such as "Browned off," "Good show," "I take a very poor view of that," say petrol for gas, use R.A.F. expressions like "gen" for general information, make constant use of "actually." Many visit R.A.F. stations. They greatly admire the fighter, coastal and bomber commands...
...Park Avenue drawing rooms and 52nd Street nightclubs he cut an exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...
...Professor R's vice was the habit of regarding other men as inanimate objects. He thought of the Swiss as so many paper dolls. Since the world of Professor R was composed entirely of paper dolls, he cut them up and pasted them together with no sense of reality, and therefore with no feeling of responsibility, and therefore with no consciousness of guilt. How is it possible for our educational system to produce such a case...
Transportation is one habit which, the public may have to modify. The railroads are carrying more passengers than in any year since 1930 and are still looking for more (except on Washington trains and a few others). But motor transport is another story, because of the rubber shortage. For civilians, who have already cut their driving on the rationed East Coast by 55-65%. Dow Chemical's Thiokol (TIME, June 29) is the great white hope, with serious talk of enough by fall to retread 1,000,000 tires a month (out of 150,000,000 in use). Nonetheless...
...Vienna during the tragic days of the Anschluss, when Hitler's tanks and troops paraded endlessly through the silent streets—had his bags Gestapoed at the hotel every day for four days running by a Himmler agent with the odd habit of leaving little chromium swastikas as calling cards...