Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much success the Club's new policy will achieve remains to be seen. The short lived Socialist Club, which went out of existence a year ago, had similar aims; but its efforts were nullified by an unfortunate habit of doing too much and reflecting too little. The old Liberal Club, on the other hand, failed to carry weight because of excessive dignity its polite petitions and its carefully dispassionate utterances lacked the force necessary for effectiveness...
...unfortunately the habit of undergraduate journalism to damn everything within its sight, giving little thought save to the sensation invariably subsequent. This may swell the coffers, but in the long run it will prove a poor policy. (Name withheld with regrets...
...flight. She expected to spell Pilot Ulbrich on the 40-hour grind to Rome. When the plane passed over Florence, Italy, Nurse Newcomer, who had taken lessons in parachute jumping, planned to bail out as a gesture in honor of First Nurse Florence Nightingale. Dressed in a white riding habit, she carried a dress which she forgot at the last moment and had to climb out of the plane and fetch, explaining: "It would be terrible if I were to be presented to the King and I didn't have a dress along...
Following her surrender to police, and conferences with a lawyer named O'Brien, Mrs. Pollak revealed that her husband had been in the habit of mauling her when she displeased him, that she had shot ("to frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer...
...finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...