Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities to each other and who were re united only after the wife had had a lively succession of affairs with men of various nationalities. Its interpretation of an elastic moral standard, toned down to conventional cinematic metaphors, will have a less disturbing effect on young people than...
...work through churches. . . . We hold meetings and agitate through literature. The agitation rests on the basis that alcohol is a habit-forming drug and should be suppressed. . . . Sometimes we interview Senators and Representatives. . . . We don't write bills [for Congress]. . . .We obtain reports about candidates for appointments and give the President the information. . . . We never permit the League to be maneuvered into assuming responsibility for any appointee...
...they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without hats will shortly have the pleasure of making their flapper friends feel at home in the subway...
...laid aside Pianist Samaroff, taken to wife instead Evangeline Brewster Johnson, Manhattan socialite and mother of a second Stokowski daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski felt he knew better than the composer. Indicative, too, is the feeling of his men, changed now from one of adoration to respect...
...year-old Russian ended what was probably a record-breaking tour of 77 concerts in 22 weeks, and a succes equalled by few recent newcomers. Before returning for a fourth U. S. tour* next January he will take a long vacation, not on the Riviera as has been his habit, but "somewhere in the mountains." Mountains are his current enthusiasm. In Denver not long ago he asked immediately on arrival for altitude figures. Pleased on hearing it was so high (one mile above the sea) he said: "Here I shall play the best concert of my life...