Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warning the British public against producing "on tick" (credit), selling "on tick" and buying "on tick," the Parliamentary Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department, one Arthur M. Samuel, "ticked off" (reprimanded) a London Chamber of Commerce meeting for countenancing within the United Kingdom "the habit of installment buying," which he called "a trade built upon sand...
Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...
...advent of art to Brattle Street is an occasion for loud applause. True, art has a habit of coming to Brattle Street but usually it is in less interesting and more turgid forms than distinctive movies. The program of films scheduled for the coming months at the local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...
Under the liberties of the McFadden act, the Continental & Commercial banks might merge. Last week they did so; pooling resources of nearly $640,000,000. Chicago now has the sixth largest bank in the U. S.* But Chicago must break a habit learned in 1910 when the Commercial National Bank consolidated with the Continental National Bank to form the Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Dec. 1, Chicago will be obliged to say Continental National Bank & Trust...
...Public trust? Public trust? Is there any greater public trust for the newspapers than to keep the public dizzy with dirt. The public wants it; the public has come to need it. The newspapers have created a habit. It must be satisfied...