Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of writing "letters to the editor," but the whole tone of the review of Joseph Auslander's latest book of poems, No Traveller Returns, on p. 80 of your May 27 issue, strikes me as so sneering and uncritical in the best sense, that I feel I must protest. After all, I have been following American poetry for years, and should know just a little of what I am talking about. In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely. In the second place...
...Brand Habit...
...inside his quiet march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going to bed every night at 9 o'clock sharp, did not fit the public concept of an able politician, much less of a great statesman...
...read the Cabinet a practical political lecture on emptying their minds and exposing their plans to the Press, pointing out that the habit got New Dealers into quarrels with one another and exposed their schemes prematurely to sniping from the opposition. With this bit of good advice the President heartily concurred...
...life he had practiced the virtues which Calvin Coolidge admired. He and his wife, who belongs to a frugal Swiss family acclimated for some generations in Texas, lived modestly, saved out of their income even when it was only $5,000 a year. She worked, and still, from habit, works as his secretary at the Capitol. They "put by," and their fortune grew. Now they have their 350 acres in Uvalde, including a pecan plantation. In their safe deposit box are said to be mortgages on every church in Uvalde, and stock in many a local bank...