Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your account of Lucrezia Bori's farewell in the issue of April 6, I was interested to learn that she still has the habit of bestowing kisses on her friends and admirers...
...enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans, particularly the young men, were addicted to rock throwing. . . . This habit culminated in one death. . . . The assailant was sentenced to three years in jail. . . . There has been very little trouble with rock throwing since that time...
Colonial society on that Pacific island was outraged by Artist Gauguin's habit of pasting obscene postcards on his bedroom door, of insisting on public recognition of his native mistresses. In constant trouble with French officials and the police, he moved finally to the Marquesas Islands, built and worshipped a clay idol of his own designing, died, half-blind...
...French statesman he slips across the Channel to shoot grouse in Scotland or ride to hounds with English country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME, Dec. 30). If the Council of the League of Nations should proceed to meet in London, virtually "in Baldwin's lap," not only the Prime Minister but also the John & Jane Bulls...
...sheer Geneva habit a pretense was indulged in that some of the sessions were the Council, some of them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...