Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsmen have acquired a curious habit of writing about Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, as having "tears in his eyes." When they filed into his office last week to ask if he had resigned in a quarrel with the President over Navy policy (see p. 13), the dry-eyed Secretary said: "I have not resigned...
...introduce a small child to the idea of an omnipotent Father may easily rob him of his self-dependence. He may form the habit of leaning on some person or power instead of growing up in the belief that he alone must meet and solve his problems as they arise. One might jeopardize the whole future happiness of a child by telling him that he is accountable to God for what he does and not to his own conscience...
...Angora's owner is one Harold Mallard. He carried it across busy streets into a park where it is the cat's habit to stroll at the end of a-leash. The cat saw a squirrel, leaped from Mr. Mallard's arms, chased the squirrel 30 ft. up a poplar. The squirrel ran down. But the cat feared to follow, yowled until police came with ladders...
European movies that this reviewer has seen have three regrettable characteristics. The first is an irritating slowness of action, a habit of dragging out all scenes to the end and beyond. The director does not seem to trust the audience to understand what is going on merely by a series of flashes. He will portray a man crossing a field, not as in an American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive...
...statement could more perfectly sum up the anarchic way out of a difficulty than the letter from Eugene L. Bolisle in your issue of October 19. The too frequent habit of democratic communities, of taking the easy way, of resorting to makeshift, which has brought democracy as a system to disrepute, is just what the letter appeals to. The final statement "People are suffering, this is the only issue, Harvard can give money. This is the only answer", reveals the loss of perspective in preoccupation with a small difficulty, which has made some people believe, that democracy cannot possibly achieve...