Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother of the Carmelite monks...
...informal preliminary to the CRIMSON's intended poll of University sentiment on the prohibition question ended yesterday in an overwhelming victory for the drys. There recently has been a rumor that those in charge of keeping clean the Business School dormitories were in the habit of collecting hundreds of bottles which found their way to the basement after being emptied of their alcoholic content, and that these bottles, on being resold to wet representatives, became a vitreous bonanza for the collectors, who netted tidy for tunes...
Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...
...high-handed Williams Habit: spending hours in his classes talking out of the window about everything in everyone's province but in that of the work prescribed in nasty does to the classes...
...records by the University has never received any adequate explanation. As the letter points out, a review of the examination is desirable for uncovering the weak as well as the good points of the student's knowledge of the course on which he has been tested. The usual habit of the average undergraduate is to forget all about the particular questions asked on the examination as soon as he has received notice of his grade in the course. A passing mark, the immediate goal, assumes precedence over the far more important aim of possessing a comprehensive acquaintance with the subject...