Word: habitant
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...stinking up the fine autumn mornings. Boston's first citizen, small, erect, beak-nosed Charles Francis Adams III, regarded the monster warily. He had never learned to drive a car, and at 80 had no intention of learning. Neither was he enamored of taxicabs, nor of the modern habit of leaping into one every time it rained. He liked to begin his day (after rising promptly at 6:45 in his stately house in suburban Concord) by walking the half mile from North Station to his office on State Street...
...revive the habit of courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most helpful and considerate" clerk. Said Trippett of his plan: "I have 25 girls on my staff and it is certainly keeping-them on their toes...
...heroine . . . though pretty, is not a traveling salesman's idea of Venus. Hers is an interesting face, not a vacant one. . . . Her hair looks as if she could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire...
West's mother, releasing a fact she hoped would be helpful in finding her son, said he was fond of browsing in art shops, and that he might retain this habit even if suffering from amnesia...
...Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...