Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime...
...Rules for an Introvert. Don is helped by a funnyman named Sam Cowling, whose greatest laugh-getter is his habit of falling over his own feet, and by Fran Allison (of Kukla, Fran & Ollie) who plays the part of a gabby female. The three show-stopping features are 1) "Memory Time" (mostly sentimental poems), 2) "Prayer Time" (strictly nonsectarian), and 3) "The March Around the Table," in which the kids in the audience play follow-the-leader, led by Sam Cowling. McNeill also interviews selected guests, ranging from such visiting stars as Bob Hope to such personalities as Elmer Feagin...
Madeleine is Rickie's wife. She is also a prim and proper neo-Victorian with a habit of regarding duty and pleasure as synonymous. Dinah is an apostle of self-expression, always dressing and undressing her mind to suit the latest intellectual fashion, from Picasso to Kierkegaard. "On visits and at her Bohemian parties, she makes an impression on Rickie. Pretty soon, Rickie's business engagements are mostly monkey business. Torn between his obligations to Madeleine and his two young sons, and the emotional release he feels with Dinah, Rickie's conscience and his stomach both begin...
Antonio Frasconi, 34, seems a paradoxical fellow. He has happy brown eyes and a sad black mustache, an air of contentment and a sighing voice, a habit of absent-minded wandering and a craftsman's power of concentration. Says he: "An artist must be aware of the comic strip as well as of the serious side of life." Frasconi divides his time between Southern California (where "everything is wide open") and Manhattan ("it's all concentrated like a sardine can"). He sketches constantly in street and field "There is so much going on," he sighs, "so much material...
There were also some questionable "shop practices," said Solomon, such as the Willow Run workers' habit of making "manual changes" in time cards to show credit for time not actually worked. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who drops his Rs in New England fashion, asked to have "shop practices" spelled. Explained he: "There are differences in pronunciation in different parts of the country...