Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your being there [is] to get you in good physical condition so you can have your tonsils removed without any harm." And when Adlai reported that he had taken up smoking, Mother wrote: "My Laddie Boy ... I hope I can show you the futility of getting the tobacco habit." (Today Stevenson is a mild smoker...
...your selection. I criticize, however, the picture you ran of him sitting at his desk, next to a large brass cuspidor. If Mr. Curtice likes to indulge in a quiet chew of plug tobacco, it is all right with me, but the majority of people consider this a filthy habit...
Duke Ellington was back in Manhattan last week, and jazz fans went to look him over at Café Society. The glad word from that echoing Greenwich Village cellar was: the Duke is riding high again. He displays a growing habit of holding earnest conversations with onlookers while playing the piano, and of even leaving the bandstand and meandering back just in time to give the final cutoff. But his band is practically reborn...
Lyman is described in the current issue of Sports Illustrated as a "a brilliant but uneven player who has a disconcerting habit of jumping up after he has made a move, as though he suddenly remembered that he had to catch a train...
...WITH THREE FACES (243 pp.) - Hans-Otto Meissner-Rlnehart ($3.50). Certain families have the ruling habit-the Adamses and Roosevelts in the U.S., Cecils, Churchills and Stanleys in Britain. The Sorge family is one of the first in history with a hereditary link to international Communism...