Word: habituates
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...Habitués of the Cantina de los Médicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
Living by Larceny. The dead man was François Vintenon, a habitué of Paris' Latin Quarter. The sensitive, introverted son of a well-to-do merchant, François had joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs...
...Army's Criminal Investigation Division had narrowed the suspects to four members of Kronberg's habitu...
...dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialité. The management obligingly posted a timetable over the bar in the lobby; habitués would drink till the big moment, dash in for it, and then depart...
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...