Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several causes are now assigned to the uncanny revolving of the strange receptacles, among them nicety of balance, vibrations, air currents, and a particular penchant which the baskets themselves seem to possess toward a revolving life...
...excellent example. And the delightful little gesture about the man who abridged in Bridgeport. That has flavor. And the characters enjoy a certain spiciness, perhaps the sparkler of impossibility. For aside from the old mother who was so very wise and middle western and the stage manager with a penchant for odd books, they move and have their being in a rather crude and unusual fashion--being more romantic than classic, much more...
Queen Margherita was the only daughter of the late Prince Ferdinando of Savoy, Duke of Genoa. She exhibited throughout her life a gracious penchant for royal democracy, which the Italian people warmed to and understood...
...familiar barnyard animal is distinguished by its penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
Bishop Murray, now eligible to the courtesy title of "Most Reverend," was born into a Methodist family of Maryland 68 years ago, and early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary...