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...feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk. Why, in St. Louis I trip over everybody, they walk so slow. That's what's wrong with St. Louis...
...Habit. In Amagansett, N.Y., Alan Vass. charged with burglary when police found 79 pairs of women's shoes (all sizes 5 to 6) in his attic and garage, was ready with his explanation: "My wife once said she liked that kind. I got started taking them and couldn't stop...
This association of strong drink with Class Day is a significant historical strand. In 1693, probably before the advent of the valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON...
Mostly buried in the appendices of Their Finest Hour are the unromantic details-the huffy commands ("The Prime Minister has noticed that the habit of private secretaries . . . addressing each other by their Christian names ... is increasing, and ought to be stopped"), the interminable questions fired at his subordinates: "What arrangements are you making for curing surplus bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there...