Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ball gracefully stepped out. Of his antagonists in First Church, Dr. Ball magnanimously observed: "They are not really reactionary. They are just victims of heredity and environment, and perhaps habit. ... I heard Robert La Follette make a stirring summation once and it fired me with liberalism. Now I am more than just a liberal. A liberal has come to mean a man who wavers from left to right and right to left. I am a radical...
...wealth came from shipping and New England real estate, Eleonora Sears is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef ferson. Her mother's father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs to raise their eyebrows long before...
Furthermore the student was ordered not "to goe out of his chamber without coate, gowne or cloake, and everyone, everywhere, shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange ruffianlike or newfangled fashiond, without lavish Dresse or excesse of apparel whatsoever...
Some who make a habit of criticizing the "most influential man in America" assign to Frankfurter the authorship of Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech--in spite of the fact that it is quite obvious to close observers that the ghost was Charles Michelson, ace New Deal publicity...
During the last few years Cambridge have been in the habit of winning this race with almost sickening regularity, so much so that many Cambridge men would almost welcome an Oxford victory...