Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home cooking is not entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace...
...Samuel Insull. a young clerk in London, read an advertisement in the Times for a part-time stenographer. He got a job with the London agent of Thomas Edison. Later Edison's chief engineer, E. H. Johnson, visited London. Like most Americans he was distressed at the British habit of working only in business hours. He suggested that Stenographer Insull work for him evenings. Insull agreed. Impressed with him Johnson finally said, "Young man, you ought to come to America." Insull answered: "I'd only go to America if I could be private secretary to Mr. Edison." Johnson...
...principal character is given as much reality as the author allows by Mr. Norman Lloyd, whose interpretation of a difficult part leaves nothing to be desired, unless it be a coherence. His habit of addressing his remarks exclusively to his boutonnier considerably diminishes the effect of his fine acting...
...first mistake when healthy Catherine Schmidt insured herself for a million francs as Mageli Herbin, and the real Mageli Herbin promptly died of pneumonia. Insurance companies became suspicious. Detectives investigated and found a series of mysterious facts but no direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were in the habit of renting various small villas as "nursing homes." Under a boulder in the garden of Sarret's house in Marseilles, detectives found a great mass of bones-rat bones, cat bones, assorted dog bones up to the skeleton of a St. Bernard, all more or less decomposed by acid...
...shore leave habitually disports itself with liquor and the ladies of the yellow filet. Admiral Rodman, who qualified as an art critic by commanding the naval forces overseas in the World War, complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy, who may have learned the rudiments of art from recruiting posters, was notified of the libel. It is not likely that the weary farm mothers of Kansas and Idaho, upon whose sons the Navy depends...