Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee met in Geneva to deplore the state of narcotic affairs, Stuart Jamieson Fuller, U. S. spokesman, rose with special pride to report about the thoroughgoing efforts U. S. citizens are making to discover some drug which deadens pain as effectively as does morphine but creates no morphine-like habit...
...addict the new drug while he is deprived of morphine. If he throws no deprivation fits, the new drug is considered an effective narcotic. After several days of this, the patient is deprived of all drugs. If he throws a fit, this proves that the substitute is also habit-forming...
William J. Thomas, of the Social Science Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, has been named Lecturer on Sociology, and is to teach an undergraduate course on group habit systems...
...father, Secretary Cleland Boyd McAfee of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Mildred McAfee is a "distinctly Christian" joy. Less from austerity than from habit, she does not drink, smoke or play cards. But she enjoys the cinema, likes to dance. In her spare time she knits, and, like Ellen Fitz Pendleton, writes an occasional detective story...
...minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer and a crooked gambler...