Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spirit of Bond Street. Weizmann greatly admired the British, was often accused by his fellow Zionists of imitating them (he wore Bond Street shirts and acquired a marked habit of understatement in his speech). In 1946, when he favored the British partition plan, David Ben-Gurion opposed him; Weizmann was forced out as head of the Zionist organization...
...bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs, two bears, six ponies, a herd of deer and several cockatoos). This exotic domesticity was frequently punctuated by Mrs. Ziegfeld's magnificent tantrums, because Flo could not shake the habit of falling in love with beautiful women...
...Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...
...never acquired the ballplayer's habit of chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
Eddie Davis, tackle on the strong team in 1946, invited his listeners to "come on out tomorrow--you'll see the new look; the kind from Michigan. They're in the habit of winning out there...