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...bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs, two bears, six ponies, a herd of deer and several cockatoos). This exotic domesticity was frequently punctuated by Mrs. Ziegfeld's magnificent tantrums, because Flo could not shake the habit of falling in love with beautiful women...
Eddie Davis, tackle on the strong team in 1946, invited his listeners to "come on out tomorrow--you'll see the new look; the kind from Michigan. They're in the habit of winning out there...
Among other British traits unrecognized at home, says the Times, is their habit of piracy, "of dropping honest work and taking to simple, bluff, hearty plunder," and their "propensity for endless aggressive warfare." There is no use, it insists, in Britons assuming a cloak of false modesty about these many talents. "These are very necessary traits . . . nowadays, not at all to be apologized for." In the world's present state, "there is nothing more dangerous than the current cant phrase, 'We must gather together all the peace-loving nations.' Unless the peace-loving nations can induce...
...muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week Johann was saying: "Today, yes, we can count ourselves fortunate...
...Marijuana, a drug made from Indian hemp, is sometimes grown furtively on vacant city lots. Medical research has been unable to find positive evidence that it is habit-forming, but it has its constant users. It is said to produce a state of exhilaration in which time seems to move slowly...