Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan is not in the habit of doing much rattling before she strikes. Thus French Navy and Colonial officials were gravely alarmed when the official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office said on the record: "Japan might be compelled in self-defense to take such measures as she deems necessary...
...anesthesia, they will grow uninhibited by the defenses of the body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less than "dead drunk...
When the Roxy was temporarily closed in 1932, Mrs. Elliot transferred her allegiance to the Radio City Music Hall. There, a $45-a-week ballet dancer, Mrs. Rosalie Spatcher Kniskern, made a habit of sitting down for a chat with the old lady when she was not needed on the stage...
...Ganzer Kerl!" Adolf Hitler, who makes it his crude habit to rub the noses of distinguished foreign guests as deeply as possible in Nazidom, characteristically staged the Munich conference at the very hub of the Nazi movement, the Führerhaus (Leader's House...
...House of Lords, Labor's Spokesman Lord Snell of Plumstead sounded the same challenge: "Conferences should become the habit. We should include Germany and Russia-all countries willing to work for Peace...