Word: habits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...action of the play centers about an officer of Hussars, Viktor von Berndt, nicknamed "Veilchenfresser," or violet-eater, because of his habit of sending flowers to his many passing lovers. Fran von Berndt, his aunt, wishes him to marry valeska von Rembach, daughter of the commandant of a neighboring fortified town. Viktor, however, is already deeply interested in Sophie von Wildenheim, a young widow, but she believes him incapable of true love. Colonel von Rembach also desires to marry Sophie. Reinhard von Feldt, a young and bashful lawyer, and Valeska von Rembach are furthermore desperately in love. Because...
...satirize the levity of German officers and military circles in general. The author shows, however, that underneath the frivolous exterior, these officers have the most genuine ideals. The action of the play centres about Victor von Berndt, who is nicknamed the "Veilchenfresser," or violet eater, from his habit of sending violets to all his passing loves. Owing to the elaborate scenery which will be used, it has been found necessary to shorten the play from four to three acts...
...inclination to read the newspapers carefully. But the most vital of these questions, which he would find treated piecemeal in the newspapers are discussed in their entirety in a class debating club. This good with two others--ease in expressing one's thoughts in public and a correct habit of thought in examining live questions--are easily within the reach of even those who see in themselves no promise as great debaters or who have no such ambition...
...University makes us hold in grateful remembrance the heroes of Protestantism--Luther, Erasmus, and their kindred spirits--and the German Princes who upheld that cause through long years of cruel warfare. The Puritan Government of Massachusetts followed anxiously the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War and was in the habit of ordering public thanksgiving for good news from Germany...
Dana is inclined to get down on one knee in stopping grounders, instead of keeping his heels together. His throwing and sliding, which have been unsatisfactory, are now improving some. In batting he must break himself of the habit of pulling away from the plate...