Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World universities had not had the habit of picking any convenient boarding house as a class-room, Harvard probably wouldn't be celebrating its three hundredth birthday...
Skipping rapidly from social theory to ethics and morals, the executive secretary becomes most profound, "The habit of regarding pictures emotionally must be overcome," he says, "and we must learn to take hold of our task very dispassionately. It is time to stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen...
...best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a dagger-like point that wounds and wins. Always the gentleman, Husband Brook endows his wife's portraits with polite dignity and even a certain beauty...
...arty Woodstock, N.Y. where the Bacon-Brook family used to summer before they moved to Cross River, N.Y., oldtimers remember them as The Couple Who Kept the Baby With the Rattlesnake. This is not the exact story. Husband Brook and Wife Bacon were in the habit of parking their healthy young son Sandy in a small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed...
...full of obvious but persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher Jarret whose wife is hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume of Don Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience...