Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment the editors feel that The American Spectator is becoming a routine job, is getting dull and is similarly continuing merely as a matter of habit, they will call it a day and will retire in a body to their estates."-The American Spectator, November...
...Knoedler & Co. According to Lawyer Hogan, it is today valued at $19,000,000. Though generally assumed to be one of the finest private collections of old masters in the U. S., its complete make-up is still unknown to outsiders-largely because of Mr. Mellon's habit of issuing diplomatic denials every time the Press gets wind of a new acquisition. If and when the collection is publicly exhibited in a Mellon museum, students and critics will have a chance to view the following world-renowned treasures...
...première. Chu Chin Chow, which opened in London in 1916 and closed three years after the Armistice, ran long enough (2,238 performances) for practically every soldier in the Allied armies to have seen it. Abie's Irish Rose, which got to be a national habit, played 2,532 performances in New York alone, while nine companies took it on the road. But The Green Pastures had by this week become a quasireligious, semi-public U. S. institution. It had been acted the length & breadth of the land by only one company, virtually the same 75 Negroes...
...boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided...
...study the biggest and best abortoriums in the world, Mrs. Sanger last August went to Russia. What she saw there caused her pertly to warn Joseph Stalin and other virile Russians: "Abortions make women nervous. It is common knowledge that the practice of abortion, if it becomes a habit, can do considerable harm to woman's sex life. Neuroses may develop and these in turn may result in frigidity. In this country woman is no longer economically dependent on man. If she becomes frigid, she will not be dependent on him in any other way and, in fact, will...