Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sears' catalogue has been known on farms for half a century as the Wishbook, or the farmer's best friend. A scrapbook of America, it has mirrored the country's changing manners and habits. In the early days, Sears' ultimate in sophistication was a solid gold toothpick with earspoon combined, its recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches...
Right from the start, Cronin formed the two-sided habit of proudly sticking out his neck and humbly accepting the spiritual chastisement that invariably followed. His pride took a sharp beating in his very first job, in the clinic of a lunatic asylum: he was nearly strangled to death by a patient whom he had urged the superintendent to release as "such a decent chap." It took another beating at the hands of the crusty old general practitioner who took him on as an assistant and harnessed him mercilessly to the back-breaking round of rural practice...
Several professors threatened to take action against students whose examination papers contained "canned answers." Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, said in 1940 that his last English 7 exam had "wreaked havoc among crane parlor habit`uees...
Dressed in the grey habit of the Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, a charitable order she helped found in Athens several years ago, Princess Alice of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, arrived in Manhattan for her third cross-country fund-raising tour. The $10,000 raised two years ago, she said, was used to buy a home for the order, which cares for the poor and the sick. "I am very hopeful this time that I can get enough money to enlarge our plant so that I will not have to come back...
Once upon a time, many good people considered that reading novels was a sin comparable to sloth. When good novelists, with the help of critics and changing times, made the habit respectable, fiction began to outsell nonfiction. During the past few years, the novel has lost ground so rapidly that 1951 may be put down in literary histories as the year of the great debate: What is the novel's future-if any? It is not entirely an academic question. Publishers are shying away from novels, and for a good publishers' reason: people are not rushing...