Word: traite
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...given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...
...utter folly of prohibition is not so much that it gives rise to law-breaking of every description, as that it disregards a fundamental trait of man: deny him something and he wants it more than ever. If our fourteen years under this travesty of legislation have done nothing else, they have conclusively proved that man's habits cannot be regulated...
...liquor presents an entirely different problem. It seems to be an American trait to try to break laws. This trait must be reckoned with. Now the Massachusetts Legislature, in its capacity of serving the people, and therefore, youth, proposes to forbid the sale of liquor to those under twenty-one. In other words, at the very stage in a young man's life when he must be allowed to solve his own problems, through no fault of his, his sense of proportion about liquor will be warped...
...Some families has one weakness and some has another." The Jeeter weakness, sufficiently pronounced to be recognized by everybody as a family trait, was the girls' tendency to have babies before they were married. Ma Jeeter admitted the tendency frankly, philosophically, but she never made the mistake of regarding it as more than a minor failing...
...find another of their kind to mate with. They seem to be less hardy than normal mice. Waltzing mothers often tangle their babies so tightly in the nest material or in their own long tails that the mouselets suffocate or starve. Captivity and inbreeding are necessary to perpetuate the trait in whole families...