Word: habits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When someone telephones a newspaper office and says, "This is Calvin Coolidge. I have a story for you," the customary answer is, "Is that so?" and a bang of the receiver. Mr. Coolidge makes no habit of telephoning newspaper offices. Neither do Herbert Clark Hoover, Andrew William Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate seat he has cut a hole about an inch square in the arm of his chair. As an orator he is given to long words, not always correctly used, and Latin legalisms (hence his nickname). He often...
...week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored up much Filene goodwill through his habit of giving away merchandise, particularly to children...
...words or deeds not originally their own. The Lawson idea thus combined pedagogy with journalism. As executed by its chief agent, Pundit Bell, the Lawson idea has often raised resentment in the breasts of other, more shirtsleeve newsmen. From his contacts with statesmen, Pundit Bell long ago contracted the habit of talking like one. Where a few journalists are gathered together, he unconsciously addresses them as an oracle from some other world. There is something obnoxious to workaday correspondents about a man who conceives the Press to have more than the communicative function. A Bell feat, and the significance attached...
...they are in a style and in a vehicle rather more suited to the magazine cover and to the poster than to a university library. And as to their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record? Such a practice makes history interesting and accords with a reverence for facts...