Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these our censors feed, that they have become so pure?"). Though he draws on a subject file of 6,000 cross-indexed listings for his conversational ploys, Gibson never uses a script, a Teleprompter or an "idiot card," even ad-libs his commercials. He makes it a jaunty habit to breeze into the radio studio scant seconds before air time, hits his chair talking...
...novels, Alexandre Dumas felt a need for fresh material. He started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with him a 19-year-old "admiral" decked out in a musical comedy sailor suit. As Dumas wrote to a friend: "The charming little creature is in the habit of becoming a woman at night." Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand." Forgetting the Orient, Dumas and the expectant admiral hurried to the great patriot's aid and helped storm...
...Manhattan's major halls since his Brussels victory. Who is at fault? "All of us." said Taubman. "Managers, boards of directors, public, critics. Mr. Senofsky is not the only American musician who . . . has failed to be treated with sufficient honor at home. It is an old American habit to minimize...
...energies to the management of his estate. He was often seen riding across his fields at midnight for a last check. "He learned on the farm," says a friend, "that the work went best when he tended to it personally from beginning to end, and he got in the habit. Today he's still like a farmer watching his crops." He sold or gave the bulk of his properties to families that lived on them, then converted the 3,000 acres he still had into one of Turkey's most modern and prosperous farms. In due course...
...broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...