Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attractive girl who are mutually repelled at first glance, then forced by circumstances to pretend they are man & wife. To their embarrassment and their fiances' annoyance, they endure congratulations, pet publicly, share the same lodgings. Their sleeping quarters are, of course, conspicuously separate. In the last reel, habit having dulled discernment, they marry...
King, Judge, Dukes. In 1860 a For-Lincoln-Before-Chicago man was James McManes, an Irish Presbyterian immigrant who politicked his way from cotton-mill bobbin-boy to the top of Philadelphia's "Gas Trust." In 1865 "King" McManes formed Philadelphia's habit of burying the Democratic Party. The political pattern in Pennsylvania was for 70 years after: 1) that old families, business and the Republican ticket were respectable, Democrats and reformers were not; 2) that Republicans were regarded as the guardians of the protective tariff and thus of the American way of life; 3) that Pennsylvania should...
...recent years she has been a proper little matron, known to Austrians as Die Gnäddige Frau, "the Gracious Lady." She has spent most of her time doing complicated 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, chatting with priests, walking out (since she got the habit of early rising) before sunup to feed the neighbors' dogs...
...Hull's warning turns out to be just a bluff, and few observers thought it was more, Japan is quite likely some day to indulge her habit of starting trouble when the cops are looking the other way. If she does, the cop with the reddest face will be the U. S.-since everyone knows that the Western World considers the Pacific his beat...
Copey is not planning a spring trip to New York as a birthday celebration, he stated yesterday, but he intends to keep up his habit of three to four mile daily walks in good weather...