Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Magazine appeared the next year, with an imposing board of fourteen editors. It grew out of an English Club which had been in the habit of meeting to read aloud the best themes submitted during the week. The Magazine lasted until 1920, and printed Alumnae notes as well as prose and poetry compositions. The fiction was highly romantic and by modern standards quite naive. Most contributions seem to reflect the Radcliffe girl's longing for a Great Emotional Experience, and implies that a chaperoned walk from Shepard Street to Agassiz every day was not particularly exciting...
...Hara virtues and all the defects of those virtues. His ear for dialogue has never been truer, but when page after page of unselective trivia has been set down, the reader finds himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). If it appeared in the daytime, The Winslow Boy might look like a soap opera, but Terence Rattigan's old school tie has a habit of glowing in the dark; with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Siobhan McKenna, Rex Thompson, Denholm Elliott...
...fact, the Big Red may meet its match again today when it plays a Dartmouth team with a habit of allowing 105 less yards than the Ithacans are accustomed to gaining...
Michigan: Democrat "Soapy" Williams, who has the habit, was tidily re-elected to his sixth term...