Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is only one way to stop it," suggested one Philadelphia pitcher. "Make the spit ball legal again." Said Schoolboy Rowe with a straight face: "Oh, that's a dirty habit...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
...startled half the world's celebrities. She took to narcotics after an automobile accident in which her brother was killed and in which she was so badly hurt that her right leg was shortened by an inch and a half. Then she cured herself of the drug habit, married Edward Beale McLean, a handsome, charming, rich man's son, whose family owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer...
Morphine is the best pain-killing drug that doctors know. But it has grave defects: it is habit-forming, makes many patients sick, gradually weakens in its effect until bigger & bigger doses must be given. A new drug which seems to be a great improvement on morphine is now being studied by the U.S. Public Health Service and other researchers. The new drug, amidone, appears much less likely to cause addiction than morphine...
...boasted in a speech, "even if we had an accident tonight, I would still believe that it is a good record." That night United did have a crash on Elk Mountain, Wyoming (21 killed), the worst in United's history. Pat has never forgotten that lesson. Despite his habit of being right, he gets on well with most other airmen, even better with his employees, especially his pilots (David Behncke, hard-to-please boss of the gold-plated pilots' union, calls Patterson the "best airline executive in the business.") But sometimes his crisp manner irritates some...