Word: habits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember his fondness for Robert Burns, whose poetry he reads to favorites. On Sundays before Christmas he reads Dickens' Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd the window seat and fender rail of his booklined study. "Old Boys" * fondly recall his habit of snorting humorously through his nose, his ceaseless jiggling of his Phi Beta Kappa key. Of his five sons, most spectacular is the second-eldest, Sigourney Thayer, World War aviator, Paris habitue, theatre tyro, husband of Emily Davies Vanderbilt...
...comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with a sophisticated, subtle wit. Last year he made The Patriot. Burly, with a habit of scowling slightly, he likes sun baths, rye bread, practical jokes. He treats the young women working for him with waggish irascibility. Complained Miss MacDonald, neophyte, last week...
CRIMSON editorial competitions have a habit of paying pretty good dividends. Frankly, I learned a good sight more about English composition during my own CRIMSON competition than in a year's course in advanced composition...
...have spoken in my time at a number of public dinners and have proposed toasts on almost every subject under the sun. Tonight I speak with considerable embarrassment. ... It is not our national habit to invite men to dine to tell them how brave they...
Parisian Novelist Francois Mauriac: "It is lucky the jury was chosen among people not given to the habit of reflection. For myself, it would have taken me about a year to make up my mind...