Word: habitu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East Side, U.S.A. The Alliance did much to tie the East Side into U.S. life. Today it caters to four generations. The youngest get pre-kindergarten schooling, consisting mainly of play. The oldest get religious services (most Alliance habitués are Jewish, some are Italian, a few Chinese and Irish), and a quiet room in which to drink tea, play chess. In between are a multitude (more than 3,000 turn up daily), seeking various kinds of activity and enlightenment. Among them...
Before the railroads the habitués came on horseback and in coach-&-fours with Negro outriders. Then Chesapeake & Ohio built its main line past the resort. Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...