Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beginning with those first winters of suffering in Jamestown and Plymouth, it has been the American habit to render aid to those who need it. ... No thinking or experienced person insets today that the responsibility of the community shall be eliminated by passing on this great and humane task to any central body at the seat of the Federal Government. You and I know that it has been with reluctance and only because we have realized the imperative need for additional help that the Federal Government has been compelled to undertake the task of supplementing the more normal methods which...
This voice crying in the wilderness in that of L. L. B. Angas, a British financial prophet and weather-man who has the interesting habit of producing periodical manifestoes, predicting with unfailing accuracy important pending events in the world of international finance and commerce. He predicted, some months in advance of the actual date, the rubber market collapse of 1926, the English boom in the fall of 1931, and the world-wide rise in the price of gold shares. Now he is again gambling his reputation, this time with a booklet entitled "The Coming American Boom...
...manager. Her mother, a neurotic, took morphine. Florence fell in love with the son of the Jewish owner of the department store where she clerked. Their prolonged, secret engagement was honorable and nerve-wracking. Secretly they were married. Following an abortion, Florence picked up her mother's morphine habit. Florence ran away from her husband, bigamously married a second, divorced No. 1 and married a third. No. 3 left her when he discovered that she was a drug addict and, between drug spells, a drunkard. To get drugs she shrewdly took jobs as nurse or attendant in insane asylums...
This would place vigor in the ranks of the opposition. A definite program is more difficult to suggest, for when a man is taking drugs, the first thing is to break him of the habit. It also demands a leader which so far has seemed impossible. The best that the Republican Party can do today is to keep its form of organization and act with intelligence. However, if it retains its present characteristics, it must justly give way to a third party which will represent the vigorous opposition of youth and intelligence...
...just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...