Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last word will probably lie with Ireland's Academy of Letters and the U.S.'s Mr. Kelly, who is known to favor a monument in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. But, snapped Lord Killanin, "statues have a habit of disappearing or being decapitated in Ireland...
...habit of sending telegrams to the theatrical groups wishing them well on their first appearance or anything of that sort...
...months-long fit of timorousness, the State Department has acquired the unpleasant habit of locking up educators, visiting scholars, and students on Ellis Island. And as if the incessant lock-ups are not enough, State meets requests for information with all the loquacity of a laryngitic clam. Those within Ellis Island stockades have not the slightest idea of their supposed misdemeanors, and those in American trying to help are kept equally ignorant...
...remember you never use are those that come to me most naturally in this matter: the psyche, and idiosyncrasy. The psyche is the life of the body with all its functions more or less combined to evoke consciousness and action; and idiosyncrasy is a name for the marked special habit of any individual. With this literary psychology of men and nations I should be content, if in describing this the observer did not call in any disembodied power to direct either thought or action...
While he was on the 'Poon staff, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst '88 became business manager. According to Santayana, many students resented Hearst's habit of smoking long cigars while strolling through the Yard; they considered it a tasteless exhibition and a showing off of his wealth. Hearst did, however, provide the Lampoon with a luxurious new building, and Santayana notes that "he could sell...