Word: addicting
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...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...
...Druggist Addict. In Cambridge, Mass., a wounded veteran apologetically held up Druggist Gustaf Johnson for the third time (total take: $660), promised it would be the last, explained: "I'm being transferred to another hospital...
...letter was enough to scare any husband who values the seat of his underpants. It was written by a soap-opera addict. The starry-eyed housewife wrote: "I always listen while I'm ironing. It makes me forget I'm ironing...
...good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 - for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really...
During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...