Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives the flower of legislative society. Perhaps the only mannerism which still betrays his early career as a mine mule-skinner is his habit of hitching up his coat sleeves before he carves the roast. His conversation is straightforward, if sometimes redundant, and he is quite capable of conveying, if not originating, an acceptable image. Sonorously he speaks of the democratic necessity, in these troubled political times, of a large, well-disciplined, contented bloc...
...almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket to see the man who had been allowed in the U. S. through the intervention of President Roosevelt. Likewise ministers, whom he was in the habit of scolding because they do nothing but "preach, preach, preach," were eager to meet a man of God who had performed such practical miracles as marketing Japanese three-piece men's suits for $1.35. And some genuinely religious folk saw in Dr. Kagawa, who was converted from Buddhism...
Continuismo is the word which Latin Americans use for their Presidents' bad habit of trying to continue in power after their terms have expired. When the U. S. Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...
...last week this triangular experimenting produced no morphine substitute which the experimenters would certify as non-habit-forming. On the other hand, the work enabled Mr. Fuller to tell the world from Geneva last week that one substitute, desomorphine, for which much had been claimed, has "habit-forming properties even in excess of morphine or heroin...
...through France: "Rigor mortis has set in in Paris.") Prepared to be sympathetic with Russia, he discovered many a Soviet custom that turned his U. S. stomach. In Moscow, he says, it is true that people always look over their shoulders before hazarding a political remark; he got the habit himself. The suppression of publicity has resulted in a plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through...