Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's special train stopped at Salisbury, N. C. Cried an old man: "We're for Hoover 100%." Replied the President from the rear platform: "Well, now that you've got the habit, keep...
Discovery and arrests confirmed the contention which Charles Henry Tuttle published last week: "It is recognized that there is no other habit-forming drug more baneful than heroin, and it is apparent that the Federal enactment prohibiting its importation or manufacture in this country has met with little or no success. To date, all known investigations and prosecutions instituted since 1924 established that the sources of supply of heroin are not attributed to its illegal manufacture in our own country, but are traced to the smuggling of the drug from foreign countries...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...
...Their marriage turned out strangely well, though Zeno loved his wife most when he was with his mistress. When he went into business with his brother-in-law they lost half their capital the first year. But Zeno. who could do nothing from the right motive, got the bad habit of work, found he could not keep himself away from the office. Eventually he dropped his psychoanalytic treatment because business had cured...
...Nancy, Lady Astor, M. P., appeared last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing to give his expert testimony on the "condition of drinking" in Britain. "The most recent development in drinking," said Lord Astor stroking his chin, "has been the use of cocktails. It is a new habit, and I may add that it is apparently growing. It is a habit that has been created by private enterprise because there is money in cocktails...