Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putter, found golf almost as amusing as his favorite game of croquet, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week found it necessary to play his way out of three delicate diplomatic hazards. The slow-speaking Secretary timed his strokes well and executed them neatly but, as golfers have a habit of doing, he felt inclined by week's end to indulge in a dash of reasonably non-diplomatic language...
...Three weeks ago 70-year-old Editor White was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, thus becoming a more or less official spokesman for U. S. journalism. Last week, on his way home, Bill White showed that this new honor had not changed his old habit. Addressing the students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, the Sage of Emporia blurted...
...stop nervous or badly trained children from wetting their beds, a habit which should cease by the age of three, Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease...
...music, the cinema, but he has no hobbies. "I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it." How much money Welles is making he will not say. He is not even sure he knows. His habit at the Mercury is to draw "what he needs" from the box onice usually, the box office reports, some $200 a week. Houseman does the same. Says Welles: "Houseman and I aren't making enough money to cheat each other...
...tour, Representative Wilcox adheres to a curious habit to which he attributes his success, of sitting on the edge of his bed for half-an-hour each morning while he simultaneously plans his day in detail and massages his head to improve the circulation in his brain. Unlike Dave Sholtz who makes a point of stopping at a second-rate hotel wherever possible, Mr. Wilcox and his wife-who calls her 5 ft. 6 in. husband "the little giant" and whose social rivalry with Mrs. Pepper is rumored to be one reason for her husband's desire...