Word: inhabited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats probably will inhabit the deserted tents in Anacostia," she continued. "Why, they have completely done away with all formality at the White House. I was received there the other afternoon, if you call being herded into a room with 200 other people and waiting for the doors to open, a reception. The wife of a Republican state department official preceded me. When thanked by Mrs. Roosevelt, for what her husband had done, she said her husband had worked harder than he had for his own administration. 'Well, he had something to work on' was the squelching reply...
...narrative as that which described the Hallams of the Upper West Side (Another Language). In their Park Avenue purgatory, the Langdons of A Saturday Night were more urbane. The Rimplegars of Brooklyn (Three-Cornered Moon) still hold the all time record for dulcet insanity. But the Blakeleys, who inhabit a presentable but unspecified sector, amuse at times...
...corrected. House masters must no longer even unconsciously lure Freshmen in under the delusion that they may have the choice of a better and perhaps cheaper room the next year. Students should not be drawn into what is practically a three year contract for rooms they cannot afford to inhabit more than one season. In all fairness the House masters must make the actual situation clear to all applicants for rooms...
...Contrary to snap judgment all the people-red, white, black & yellow-who lived & died from 1492 until 1880 in what is now the U. S. did not equal the 123 millions who now inhabit...
...horse against a copper moon. The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that it was life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears...