Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disposed to pay a bonus all round if the troops will fight against Generalissimo Chiang. The troops are also not supposed to pick their noses, but to date it is no secret that whenever the Dictator's back is turned there is much reversion to many a nasty habit. The Premier has, however, about 250,000 Chinese soldiers who are actually crack troops, "Chiang's Own," trained to the snap of intelligent duty by German officers. In case of war with Japan these 250,000 expect to have the harrowing duty of driving as many as possible...
Handsome, silky-chinned Sculptor Bartholdi was an Alsatian who studied painting first, then turned to sculpture under the little-known French Artist Soitoux. The gigantic always fascinated him: his projects grew bigger and bigger, a habit which brought him into contact more with young engineers than young sculptors. Ferdinand (Suez Canal) de Lesseps was a friend of his; with Alexandre Gustave (Tower) Eiffel he was even more intimate...
William E. Hocking, Harvard philosopher, believes that Americans are not grave enough. The Times quotes him as saying: -- "If the Puritans overweighed the, note of gravity, we are at least as prone to overdo the stimulation of nonchalance. And the habit of treating all things as if they were equally light to our abundant powers and emotional buoyancy is apt to leave us emotionally bankrupt in the presence of the objectively deeper passes of experience...
Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...
Until recently, U. S. golfers made a habit of winning British championships as well as their own. This season, the situation has been reversed. Scot Jack McLean was a finalist in the U. S. Amateur at Garden City last month. Last week, at Summit, N. J., England's Pamela Barton was a finalist for the U. S. Women's Championship...