Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste of the world is in fact becoming as fickle as women's fashions. . . . People . . . want something cheaper. . . . They have, I believe, got into the habit of liking change for the sake of change. . . . To compete with foreign prices we should sacrifice some of the . . . solidity we have been accustomed to give...
...years ago the Vagabond had a nickle which, being a shiftless wastrel, he immediately spent. Even in those bygone days he had a bit of the intellectual about him. None of those candy bars for him. That was throwing money away, so he bought a Post. Since then the habit has clung, to his embarrassment. When caught reading it he is wont to turn upon his accuser and answer, "Oh just, reading the Ads." It is the one lie he permits himself. Nevertheless there are some good stories, especially for this time of year. All about earnest young...
Oxford, Buenos Aires and Chicago are the three most intoxicated districts in the world according to the university's magazine "The Isis." The two cities have no designated reason for their debauchery, but the Oxonian undergraduates drink "from habit." Why "The Isis" should object to this is hard to understand when one realizes that huntsmen dress purely as a matter of habit...
...plane, tearing through space at more than two miles per minute, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald returned last week from his Scottish home at Lossiemouth for the reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...
...applauding an instructor at the conclusion of a stimulating lecture. Applause, it should be noted well, comes not at the end of each class, but only those in which the student audience conceives the lecture to have been unusually entertaining. Though doubtlessly done with the best of intentions, this habit is apt to assume alarming regularity with subsequent disastrous consequences...