Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is your habit word, the word you utter unguardedly...
...wooded wilderness of Vancouver Island, B.C., Lonsdale began with six boys. Today Shawnigan Lake School has 100 boys and 27 masters. One-third of the pupils come from the western U.S. They are easily distinguishable when they return home by their habit of sirring adults and by their preference for "rugger" and cricket. Shawnigan Lake's spartan Tudor dormitories, school ties, daily chapel and iron discipline are still modeled after the England Lonsdale knew 35 years...
...given to drink is no different from the man on the other side of the fire door when he first starts imbibing, Bates said. But once he begins, he withdraws into his social shell, and cannot put down his glass. Unless he is shown how to stop, his habit will grow worse as he gets older...
...associates professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
...writer of B pictures for years, 42-year-old Dore Schary never got into the habit of throwing money around. At RKO, he has cut down the costly time of shooting a full-length picture to as little as 19 days (the industry average is 45 to 70 days); he has been known to leave as little as 200 feet on the cutting-room floor in editing a film. This has been done by cutting scripts to the last adjective, working out every twist of plot before shooting starts. (Many a director still makes up the plot as he goes...