Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luther Burbank: "In an article for Mr. Ford's Dearborn Independent, entitled Tobacco, Tombstones and Profits, said I: 'I never met a tobacco user who did not regret that he had formed the habit; I never met a non-smoker who was sorry he did not smoke. Isn't that significant...
...book consists of three parts, devoted to data ) derived from: 1) Observation, Introspection and Biography; 2) School and College Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley...
...DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND? Aleister Crowley?Dutton ($2.00). Sir Peter Pendragon, demobilized English ace, acquires the cocaine habit and a lady her friends term " Unlimited Lou " in the same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris?varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall?and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus?a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they...
This thesis might be set down as film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...
...straw vote habit in journalism...