Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer Ford's sales manager last week, after 23 years of service, six as head of sales. Guessers were kept busy finding reasons for the unexplained dismissal which surprised Fordling Cowling and shocked his admirers, but those most frequently mentioned were his pronounced independence and the habit formed by some Ford dealers of referring to the Ford distribution system as the "Cowling System." Adaptable Bill Cowling, once president of Ford-owned Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R., was never paid the heroic salary popularly supposed. Henry Ford's sales manager got $35,000 per year and even the bonus...
...German visitors to France, then climbed aboard the train for a conference which smiling M. Delbos said afterward had unfortunately been all too short. Such goings on and such words would have seemed incredible a few months or weeks ago. They showed that France may be slipping into a habit (acquired in London at the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain) of not only cooperating with Britain but also not quarreling with Germany and Italy...
...Reagon, vaudeville booking agent, offered Josephine $250 a week to go to Paris. With the exception of a disastrous attempt to reinvade Broadway in 1936, Josephine Baker has remained in Europe ever since. Parisians loved her shrill, piping soprano, her lacquered hair and extravagant clothes, her habit of dancing nude but for a girdle of artificial bananas. She paraded the streets of Budapest with two swans on a leash, kept a perfumed pig in her Paris nightclub. In 1937, Josie Baker announced to the world her marriage to an Italian count, one Pepito di Abatino. Research proved first that...
...knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up nets to avoid being hit by flying parts. She had a 3-in. disappearing gun that could be coaxed up on deck after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid...
University Hall has told the police not to arrest any well-dressed men they see slinking along Massachusetts Avenue with hats pulled over their eyes and a habit of dodging into alleys at the sight of an undergraduate. Before putting the cuffs on any of these shy, furtive men the police must make sure whether they are ex-members of the Curley administration or the Harvard faculty hiding from students who have study-cards to be signed...