Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: "In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 from opium taxes alone. It is also a matter of common knowledge that the five hospitals for curing the opium habit in Foo-Chow, run by the head of the Opium Suppression Bureau, are really facilitating the sale and consumption of opium." He continues that bribery of the customs officials goes on on a large scale, and that "in the old days opium cultivation was voluntary and merely a trade...
...everyday life of stars, directors and camp followers-these are entertainingly and faithfully depicted. In fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only blown-in-the-bottle villain (Landru, who has a habit of murdering his wives for their insurance) comes from outside of the pictures; the " wickedest woman in the movies " is proven to be engagingly aseptic; and even the director just talks elegant. But it's worth seeing, if only to view Chaplin in ordinary garb...
...probably a more important argument for the study of History is that that study is peculiarly fitted to develop one indispensable habit of thought, one important method of approach to most classes of questions. It inculcates what is sometimes called the "genetic" point of view. It teaches us that almost nothing here below is fixed and static; that growth and decay, change and adjustment are as much the rule in the political, social, and intellectual world as in the physical and biological; and by studying all things as in process of "becoming", by emphasizing the ideas of development, continuity with...
...none of the consequent hazards. You can get the keenest satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience of their unfortunate finish...
...Harvard, there is no quenelle ancients et des modernes. The purpose of the recently established examinations in the Bible, Shakespeare and a selected list of ancient and modern authors is to emphasize the continuity of all literature and to encourage students to cultivate the habit of reading, for pleasure's sake, in the best that men have written. A student of any literature will find it impossible to look at his subject narrowly; he will find that it concerns the history of man's best achievements in any age. He cannot hope to traverse all this vast domain...