Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dresses, the war is an excuse for shedding a habit they hated. Mr. James Cromwell is greatly preferred to Lindbergh...
...outside journalistic community were entirely familiar with the habit of having candidates for the Crimson scout about at this season of the year for anything that would make a story, they might have treated the article in question in the light that was suggested by the cartoon and its presumably funny caption. However, the assumption seems to have been made that the article was seriously intended and, as such, it surely should have had some basis other than totally unfounded and perhaps joking rumer...
...Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop suddenly announced a visit to Rome. According to one version, it was so sudden that not even Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano knew the Germans were coming until the day before they arrived. Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly patched up a deal with Italy over the coal, and thus took the wind out of the Ribbentrop sails before he had passed the Brenner...
Voting for the second team was more varied, due in part to the coaches' habit of shifting players from one position to another. In addition to Myers, who received five points for forward and four for guard, Charles Lutz, Jr., Harvard captain, was selected for two positions and Henry Soleliac, Jr., of Pennsylvania for three...
...discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted over with a nun's habit. Years later it was restored...