Word: habits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which he organized last week, the National Labor Party. By extremely simple arithmetic British vote dopesters could figure Scot MacDonald triumphantly returning to Parliament supported by Conservatives, split-Liberals and National Laborites who had polled together a total of from 10.000.000 to 12,000.000 ballots. But voters have a habit of fooling dopesters. Example: the last German election was called in hopes of obtaining a stable Government majority, resulted in the Hitler landslide and no stable majority (TIME, Sept. 22), thus causing President von Hindenburg to decree the Brüning Dictatorship...
Supplementary material on the programme is "The Girl Habit" with Charlie Ruggles. It is incomprehensible why an actor who has made whatever reputation he has as an inebriate should, when the time comes to be featured, play without the liquid illusion. "The Girl Habit", despite spasmodic excellences of pantomime, proves that Ruggles is not sufficiently endowed to carry a picture single-handed...
...disgrace of an embezzlement committed by a cousin and after saying farewell to the cousin's wife, with whom he is in love. When the cousin's wife, finally a widow, goes to Arizona, the picture has a halfway happy ending because the squaw, having contracted the habit of self-sacrifice, kills herself...
Lieut. Ernst Udet was, next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...
...London, experts inspected the remains of the shipment of Manchurian partridges but no more poisoned birds were found. Sportsmen advanced a new theory. In Manchuria hunters are in the habit of poisoning the carcasses of partridges with strychnine and leaving them on the ground as bait to catch rare foxes without spoiling the fur. One of these bait birds might have found its way to Lieut. Chevis' dinner table. But what about the HOORAYS of J. Hartigan...