Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's growth, since it shortened my neck. Men said that in moments of excitement the Admiral's love-pats had crippled many a woman; but they still flocked after him." At the missions along the road Juan heard many a tale of famed Father Ugarte, "whose habit it was to seize a wizard in each hand by their long hair, and knock their heads together until they begged humbly for baptism; declaring themselves long Christian by conviction, but kept from the Church by humility. Once baptized, he retained them so near him that they could not safely...
Hitherto it has been the habit of producers to lead female spies to their natural, and well-merited end. And this reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination...
...into certain nerves as they emerge from the spine relieves pain without otherwise affecting the patient. Therefore, Dr. Perry Maurice Lichtenstein, Manhattan criminologist, uses the method to speed the cure of narcotic addicts. The alcohol quiets the nausea, neuralgia and other symptoms which the addict surfers while quitting his habit...
When the drum tells him that Catherine's head has rolled off the block, Henry is alone. More from force of habit than anything else, he takes one more wife, Catherine Parr, his children's nurse. She wraps him in blankets, looks disgusted when he dribbles in his beard...
Though the late good John Galsworthy has been dead nearly a year, this posthumous novel, says Publisher Scribner, was finished six months before his death (in January 1933). One More River winds up the Charwell (pronounced Cherrell) saga neatly enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...