Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait of Charles Could, the typical British man of action, in "Nostromo," Conrad mercilessly exposed that Anglo-Saxon habit of sentimentalizing one's desires, best known as the doctrine of "the white man's burden," which has built the Empire. No, Kipling ideals cannot be found in the work of Conrad...
Equally ignoble as game is the gorilla, rapidly being killed off by frightened natives and photographers who have irritated bull gorillas to the point of charging. The gorilla was given absolute protection because it is naturally amiable, while the chimpanzee, which has acquired the habit of kidnapping native children and dropping them from trees, was relegated to the partially protected list...
...failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that "if you are a man you must be ready to fight every other man and to make love to every pretty woman,'' Rose finds Oliver stiff, deliberate, chilling, the victim of a moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front...
Less than 10% of all new car sales are "clean sales" for cash or installment rates. The rest are for old cars plus. Advancing the automotive year boosted new car sales, but used-car buyers have apparently clung to their habit of waiting until spring to purchase. Thus used cars have piled up steadily in the hands of dealers, are now 25% to 35% above normal. And spring is still two months away. While the threat of dealer bankruptcy is no greater than usual, there is so much cash tied up in used-car inventories that dealers' ability...
Christmas office parties seem to be something of a problem to working girls. "If a girl is not in the habit of drinking, this is a poor time to learn," Mrs. MacGibbon advises. Other advice: When encountering the boss in a night club wait for him to make social advances. Always rise when introduced to the boss's wife at the office. "But perhaps the worst feminine fault," says Mrs. MacGibbon, "is talking too much...