Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prodigious memory stored up more facts than the federal records. One judge so respected Webster's accuracy that he fell into the habit of delivering oral opinions, using Webster's report of them as the written opinion. Once, in court, while covering the arraignment before a federal commissioner of a man charged with stealing, Webster decided that the evidence had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure). Webster took over as the man's lawyer and got him freed...
...mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful for all his parents had done for him." It was also mother Butler's habit to extract confidences from Sam and then pass them on to her formidable husband. If the canon disliked what he heard, and he usually did, Sam got a thrashing. He grew up with the unshakable convictions that 1) all male authority is brutal and despicable, and 2) all female love is a form...
...major, this habit was particularly pronounced. Once, when Roosevelt had been overly enthusiastic, Professor Nathaniel S. Shaler '62, exclaimed, "See here, Roosevelt, let me talk, I'm running this Course...
...table. In Vienna, at the end of a similar affair, T.R. wrote: "The Emperor and all the others proceeded to rinse their mouths, and then empty them into the finger bowls." (Groping for precedents, Roosevelt recalled that the 18th century Austrian Diplomat Wenzel von Kaunitz had been in the habit of using his toothbrush at the same stage...
...Beautiful Sea, however, she is not given enough to do. As a result, memorable and magic though she is, Miss Booth almost has the show snatched away from her. Mae Barnes comes on stage to sing two of the show's best tunes, "Happy Habit" and "Hang Up," and she can't get off. If the Boston reception is an accurate barometer, lyricist Dorothy Fields better work out some original encores, because Miss Barnes is called back and back and back. Looking like an ample Earth Kitt, she throws her whole being and all her talent into the numbers...