Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate custom of interposing questions to the witnesses and assailing the peculiar methods of the court. On several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more of it. It became so much of a habit with the prosecution to ask him if he was a Red, if he was a Marxist, if he admired the Soviets, if he advocated bloody revolution, and so forth, that he adopted a counter habit of answering repeatedly and loudly: "Self-evident!" This tactic irritated one judge very much...
...finally settled in Davenport, Iowa. Bright, delicate, sensitive Floyd was good at school, read everything he could lay hands on. He was soon calling himself an Atheist; at 16 he joined the Socialist Party. He wrote poems at such an alarming rate that he realized it was a bad habit; what chiefly disgusted him was that his verses were so sentimental and God-conscious. College being out of the question, when Floyd finished school he went to work in a candy factory, graduated (often by expulsion) to other jobs, till he gravitated into journalism. At 21 he was a reporter...
...revival of Austrian patriotism. It was not an easy job. Austria has a colorful, scarcely a' glorious history. She never won a war without the assistance of powerful allies. The Habsburg Emperors gained at various times control of over half Europe by the practical but not very inspiring habit of marrying heiresses, but there was one time when Austria was truly great, when Vienna saved Europe. In 1683 the Turks under Sultan Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under...
...would be an improvement if the necktie could be brought to a different shade of blue, and we are taking the liberty of sending you the portrait, express prepaid, and one of Mr. Rockefeller's ties which represents the shade of blue which he has been in the "habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were...
...York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players...