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Last week Columnist Hedda Hopper, in a patient, motherly tone, read the moviemakers a mild warning: "Every picture, whether good, bad, or stinky, is labeled 'colossal' or 'stupendous' . . . We must try to persuade those who have stopped seeing movies to form the habit again by telling the truth about our product, and rating a picture honestly, as fair, good, or perhaps great. Few are colossal, you know...
...Congress was no longer listening to General Marshall with its old respect. Said Colorado's Eugene Milliken, "He's gotten into the habit of delivering ultimatums to Congress. He takes the same attitude toward Congress as he would to a striker who fails to put the proper polish on his boots...
...Miss Helen Mills of New York City last year found the local habit of "going around in fiannel shorts the most ridiculouse I've ever seen." Some, indeed, objected to the ivied tradition of even long finnels...
...international outlook. Doug Abbott had toughened with the times. He was no longer a patient listener. Many a time in budget conferences he cut short advisers with a brusque yes or no and hurried to the next item. Even with colleagues of Cabinet rank he had lost the habit of turning aside importunities with easy banter...
Twice married, John first carried his growing family about with him in a caravan. He made a habit of dropping in on gypsy encampments, and learned some gypsy dialects. The gypsies represented everything .his father had tried to warn him against, and he devotes more space in his autobiography to happy memories of the gypsies than to his own children, with whom he was rather strict...