Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction...
Billie had already gone through an expensive "cure" to kick the narcotics habit when she was arrested and convicted in Philadelphia on a dope-possession charge, and sent to prison. Less than a year after her release, she was arrested again−and acquitted−in California. The way she tells it, the deck was stacked against her. "When I was on [dope], nobody gave me any trouble," she says. "I got into trouble when I tried to get off." She was arrested last winter again in Philadelphia, where the trial is still pending. And there her story ends...
...Early Habit. The youngest (he is now 56) and most bookish of the Eisenhower brothers, Milton had already acquired the habit of success. After graduating from Kansas State College with a B.S. in journalism, he served as a U.S. vice consul two years in Scotland, later became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. At 28 he was made the department's director of information. He stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then...
...Britain, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden took an almost opposite tack. "We welcome the Russian reductions," he said. "If it so happens that everybody starts to catch this habit, we shall have no objection. But I think we are entitled to say that we were the first to start it." And Minister of Defense Sir Walter Monckton, though conceding that the Russians would still have 237 divisions under arms v. NATO's 100, announced that Britain was reducing its armed forces by another...
...Mencken had a lifetime habit of jotting down iconoclastic notes to himself for use in future essays. Stuffed away and forgotten, they were found shortly before his death early this year and assembled as his final book. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook (293 pp.; Knopf; $3.95) is a last lusty Bronx cheer at the muscular pessimist of Baltimore. Some samples...