Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee...
...reflects. "And it was a 100-to-1 shot." The newspaper she created is no carbon copy of the Daily News. Its front page is loud, but inside pages are made up like a magazine, with every item dummied to the last line of type. She hates the tabloid habit of marooning bits of news among seas of ads. Newsday's ads don't get in the way of full columns of Long Island news, and the advertisers have learned to like...
...each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
Anna, a big handsome Polish girl who had a habit of getting her own way, thought he was wonderful. Adolf soon proposed. They were married and lived happily in Brooklyn for eleven years. Then Adolf evolved a wonderful plan. He would go back to Poland, sell his family's farm, bring his aged parents to the U.S. and buy a farm himself. Anna agreed...
Butterflies & Sibling. Dr. Will takes his own medicine. True, he smokes two packs of Chesterfields a day, a quantity that some psychiatrists might consider a mildly alarming nervous habit. But since it is sound psychiatry to have a wholesome hobby, Dr. Will goes in heavily for hobbies. When he took a week off last August, he spent 14 hours a day on his stamp collection. He collects butterflies and goes on bird walks (his only form of exercise). He also plays the organ and piano...