Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disconcerting period in his career, Hollywood Big Shot Nicholas M. Schenck took a $50,000 bundle of bills to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million...
Your amusing note on the Anti-Cigaret Alliance's six methods to use in quitting the smoking habit is hilariously noted (TIME...
...year-old Seattle lawyer, Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. A passionate crusader for good government, young Norman Littell tackled his job with zeal and zing. But he never quite hit it off with his immediate boss, Attorney General Francis Biddle. Worse still, zealous Lawyer Littell got into the habit of denouncing Washington bungling in public. His zeal finally got on the nerves of a formidable array of Old New Dealers, including Harold Ickes, Jesse Jones, Francis Biddle and Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, ex-brain-truster turned lawyer-lobbyist...
...Washington, D.C., the Anti-Cigarette Alliance was ecstatic. Hailing the cigaret shortage as a "golden opportunity" which it hoped would last until 1947, the Alliance offered a "simple" prescription to those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding...
...Ostracion diaphenus, known to South Africans as Seevarkie or "sea piggy," to the U.S. as the "trunk fish." This eight-inch creature is encased in a bony hide like armor. Dr. von Bonde became interested in it when he learned that Malay fishermen of Cape Town were in the habit of drying it and hanging it up with a string to determine the direction of coming gales. He hung a Seevarkie in a draft-free room in his aquarium. The nose of the dead, free-swinging fish pointed in a certain direction. Sure enough, winds began to blow from...