Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired family coachman, scrupulously clean and neat, polite spoken, with a grave, impressive face. His fellow servants thought nothing of his one eccentricity: a passion for studying geography. In arresting Coachman Kuerten last week, the police pointed out that this hobby dovetailed nicely with the "Düsseldorf Vampire's" habit of sending to local newspapers, small, carefully drawn maps illustrating each of his ghastly crimes...
...week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died of a dose, not an overdose, of chloral hydrate, not heroin. The distinction: heroin is an out law, habit-forming narcotic. Chloral hydrate is a non-habit-forming, much-used hypnotic...
...whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed," his broad black hat with "a thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked...
...Americans at Cambridge have of course also noted your rather surprising carelessness with regard to easily verified facts. We have not commented with much heat on the discovery, however, as we supposed that possibly such oversights had become your usual habit. We felt that protests could hardly be expected to change the policy of your publication. In short, we were merely amused...
Count Ernesto Rossi of Martini & Rossi (makers of Vermouth, contributors to fine cocktails), arrived in Manhattan last week on business. Said he: "Americans as a class are not drinking people, although the cocktail habit seems to be regarded as a more or less desirable social amenity. . . . Americans [in Europe, where he has seen them] are divided into two classes: the Drys and the Dry Martinians." Asked by a reporter if he favored Prohibition, said he: "But for Italy-No. . . . We Italians are not blessed with the great sense of humor the Americans possess...