Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-year supply of U. S. tobacco, and being out of the market this year didn't mean they would stay out next; 3) during World War I, when Turkey was a German ally, Britons weaned themselves from sweetish Turkish, got the grown-up Virginia habit...
...were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes at his lectures, and that probably he could not break away from that excellent habit...
...Hampshire-born Constance Warren (Vassar '04) has the manner and bearing of Eleanor Roosevelt : gracious, tall, long-legged, she strides smiling about her small, garden-like campus, on rainy days wears a long military cape. Famed is her habit of drowsing on the platform during lectures by visiting bigwigs. In her book last week President Warren sounded off in brisk, layman's language. Some Warrenisms...
...burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched...
...time making up its official mind, with admirers retelling stories of the goodness of his heart, his piety, his patience during the sit-down strikes, his liberalism, his bushy eyebrows, his devotion to President Roosevelt, while detractors remembered his complexity, moodiness, the tales of his self-righteousness and his habit of suddenly drifting off during a conversation, staring moodily into space. Because he taught law for five years at the University of Detroit, made a good judge at the Recorder's Court in Detroit for seven years, lawyers deemed his legal training adequate, but pointed out that the appointment...