Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost the sight of his eye, returned to the monastery to do lighter tasks, soon resumed an old habit, heavy drinking. One day, after Devro had been on an exceptionally wild carouse, the Cistercians refused him readmittance. He ended up, insane, in a State hospital, but that was not the last the monks heard of William Devro. His wife demanded compensation from the monastery, brought suit...
Edward Anderson, an unemployed iron worker from The Bronx, is in the habit of copying newspaper photographs in his spare time, and these, too, were exhibited...
...know when they begin these negotiations how far they eventually can and will go. They usually could clear up the real issues in a couple of hours, but it has gotten to be a habit to talk for days and sometimes weeks. ... I may be wrong, but it's a good bet that nothing like that will attend the meetings of Walter Chrysler and John Lewis. They are too much alike in plain barnyard common sense...
...seemed that Benito Mussolini, who at latest reports had withdrawn to seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like...
Like the Roosevelt New Dealers, who are loudly praised by Premier Blum on frequent public occasions, the present French coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical-Socialists take a confident view of themselves as much holier than Mammon, and Finance Minister Auriol has a habit of alternating blandishments and threats to thrifty Frenchmen who< are comfortably off. Only a few months ago M. Auriol tricked investors by bringing out a "baby bond issue" with gushing Socialist appeals to French proletarians to buy, then devalued the franc in which these bonds are repayable 40% (TIME, Oct. 5). By last week the upping...