Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golden Tablets. Next day, Douglas asked for more. In the early stages of debate, said he, it is Millikin's habit to "lie somewhat torpidly on the banks of the parliamentary stream. I once spent some time in the tropics ... I noticed the crocodile, the king of the tropical rivers, lying in the mud, apparently inattentive to what was going on but, if excited, springing up and, in a paroxysm of rage, lashing his tail and extending his giant jaws-a very formidable creature indeed." Millikin answered: "I do not mind being compared to the crocodile. If I were...
...Baker Street, hansom cabs clop beneath the gas lamps, and Landlady Hudson is forever being swept aside by terrifiec clients. Holmes himself is the same old neurotic-spending most of the day in his mouse-colored dressing gown, brooding over the Times, and indulging his parsimonious habit of filling his after-breakfast pipe with "the previous day's dottles." He has lost none of his old flair for dropping cumbersome snubs on his woodenheaded friend, Dr. Watson...
...tutors are a convivial bunch who would rather eat with the undergraduates than their contemporaries. Once a week they eat en masse with the Housemaster and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Daniel Cheever, but have a habit of drifting off to undergraduate tables afterwards. Though tutorial strength easily changes, and with it the number of concentrators, Winthrop has a strong Government staff and Government is the most popular major in the house...
...what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...
...becoming a habit with Hawkins. Having swum through the best collegiate competition in the East last week in the 100 and 200-yard breast stroke, he took on the nation in the NCAA meet at Syracuse on Friday and Saturday and won two firsts again. But he set only one record in the Easterns. At Syracuse...