Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were you in the habit of eating lobster salad?" cut in Sir Patrick Hastings, eminent K. C. for the yo-yo defense...
...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...
Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...
...form. This observation goes for to explain, in Crane's case, the obscurity of his long poem, "The Bridge," and most of his lyrics, though it is not the whole truth. To an extraordinary degree, apart from legitimate compression of phrase, Hart Crane developed a personal idiom, and a habit of mixed metaphor, which frequently makes it impossible to translate his meaning into English. And occasionally he was betrayed into an inflated rhetoric, a jungle of language into which it is profitless to venture...
...directed that all commanding officers take immediate steps to eradicate the undesirable habit of profane and obscene language and to take suitable disciplinary action in the case of each infraction reported...