Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
London Without Railings. I Leap Over the Wall, a sort of deb's diary of Monica's coming out, is a bubbly, effervescent report that is certain to become a lending-library smash. With a smile she recalls the habit she wore for 28 years. It began next the skin with "a nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped...
...Europe which she had taken as her model was the Europe of the 19th Century, the Europe of decay. But America had found more efficient means of spreading rottenness than had ever been known to the Europe she copied. America had Hollywood . . . We, in Europe, need to revive the habit of asking questions; Hollywood has taught us to be content with answers...
Spilambertians said that it had been given to their town many years ago by Baldassarre Castiglione, a local resident who collected river stones, old guns and butterflies. Castiglione was remembered for the cannon, and for his habit of punishing his walking stick, when it fell to the ground, by standing it for three days in a corner of the room. San Cesarians said that the cannon was originally theirs, and they lent it for one day in 1880 to the Spilambertians, who would not give it back...
Tonight's Northeastern game won't be especially simple. The Crimson has now lost four straight, and the Huskies, although they don't win often, have a habit of playing well against the better teams they meet. Game time...