Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking for cats...
...habit of becoming "frantic...
...says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when she was confined by illness, never recovered from the habit. Since 1900 she has produced 28 books, ten films, and in spite of their internal evidence, is regarded by millions as an authority on passionate love...
Author Glyn has a better idea of her work than her admirers have. Says she: "There's really no sex in my books. People, out of habit, say they are shocking. They are just love stories...
...made his professional début in 1909. Just after the War, he married Actress Nedda Harrigan. Fond of horse races, Walter Connolly wanted to be a jockey until he found it interfered with his diet. He weighs 190 lb. stands 5 ft. 9 in. Hollywood has not changed his habit of breakfasting at noon. A better comedian on stage than off, Connolly once amused himself, while ailing in a Chicago hospital, by calling up all the Shelleys in the telephone directory, asking each if Percy was at home. In Hollywood the work of photographers, soundmen and set mechanics interests...