Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Bellamy also offers a satisfactory performance. The story is such, however, that there is little opportunity to develop any emotional power or sequence of action. "Spitfire" falls into the current motion picture habit of abbreviating. The existence of Hex superstitions is indicated only by a few statements on the part of some of the local characters. A more skillful scenario writer would have given an interesting picture-illustration of this unusual phenomenon of present-day America...
Asked in Madison. Wis., why she gave up smoking, Anarchist Emma Goldman explained: "The first time I went to jail, they wouldn't give me any tobacco and I found it quite painful to break myself of the habit. Because I was never sure when I would go to jail again I decided I'd better not acquire a need for tobacco again...
...Governor Ruby Laffoon signed a new law regarding the sale of medicinal liquor. Two ways were provided for obtaining it. (1) On prescriptions written by doctors (without limit). (2) On prescriptions which any person over 21 may write for himself, if he declares "I am not addicted to the habit of drink and have not within six months prior hereto, been convicted of drunkenness...
...discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux...
...Sisters of Charity are the largest Roman Catholic order of active nuns. A lay community not administered by the Church, the Sisters renew their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and service of the poor every year on March 25. Any pious woman may join or resign at will. Their habit is a rough grey-blue gown and a "cornette" or white-winged headdress such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns...