Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must remember he cost the British nation a lot of money and they do not choose to see their money go into the pockets of Mrs. Simpson. Foreign newspaper correspondents, especially Americans, have the habit of mixing entirely too much with their own kind, and instead of getting the point of view of the man in the street, they absorb each other's impressions. Inevitably they tend to make a hero of the man or woman who gives them news and this is a great error...
...Nebraska D. X. established a reputation as coach and soft-spoken gentleman with a habit of smacking his lips as he talked. Biff Jones has the gallantry of an Army officer of the old school, without its starched aloofness...
...will take a world-culture, the flower of a system of world-states, in order to ensure the appreciation by all of us of all the great men of all countries. Nationalism, with its warping provincialism, induces an illiberal and lazy habit of mind which exalts one's tribal gods at the expense of all other deities. Men ask, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" and like Pontius Pilate they do not stay for an answer to their question. The reputation of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) has suffered as a result of this cultural parochialism. Pushkin occupies...
...used to have a habit of looking down on illegitimate children," cried Nazi Ley. "It was an old-fashioned prejudice that has today become an absurdity. We must grant the unmarried mother, who bears a child as a result of natural healthy instincts, the same respect and the same protection as we grant married mothers...
...habit of contradicting fairy tales, when they are amusing and inoffensive. But the fantastic letter published in TIME on Feb. 1 and signed Helen Dore Boylston compels me to send you an answer. It is said in the letter published by you that the King of Albania was and is still married to the daughter of Shefqet Bey Elbasani, a great landowner. This is a libel of the coarsest type. The King was once engaged to the lady in question, but the engagement was ended by mutual consent. She after wards married Djemil Bey Dino, the present Envoy of Albania...