Word: addiction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary, was the only girl at a small English school for boys. She ran her own night club for a while, did a turn in Chariot's Revue, is a candid camera addict and while in Hollywood wanders around streets and byways taking pictures of interesting dogs, horses and persons...
...Addict...
...Socialism with other faculty wives, Veblen would remark that either side could find enough books in the library to prove its case. In his house the beds were never made, simply turned down; dishes were washed only when the whole supply was dirty. In later life Veblen became an addict of detective stories, but was so ashamed of himself he used to hide the books under his mattress...
...years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five times a week, it was the 62nd. Singers in the company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying...
...father of Florence, the drug addict, was a sober Yankee livery stable manager. Her mother, a neurotic, took morphine. Florence fell in love with the son of the Jewish owner of the department store where she clerked. Their prolonged, secret engagement was honorable and nerve-wracking. Secretly they were married. Following an abortion, Florence picked up her mother's morphine habit. Florence ran away from her husband, bigamously married a second, divorced No. 1 and married a third. No. 3 left her when he discovered that she was a drug addict and, between drug spells, a drunkard...