Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed their hitherto condoned houses of prostitution. Only a year ago 75% to 90% of venereal disease cases were incurred in such houses. Messrs. Taft and Parran and their committees had also persuaded most better-class hotels to keep a sharper eye on their bellboys' habit of sneaking in "call girls...
...type' of some sort: 'good type,' 'bad type' or 'good-bad type' . . . and there are innumerable other classifications: melancholy type, backward type, insistent type. ... A guy becomes a chap, and a fair number of Americans are developing the afternoon-tea habit." Observed Correspondent O'Reilly: "Americans must prepare themselves for a certain postwar shock they are going to get when the troops come home...
Davis returned from Oxford with the habit of wearing his handkerchief in his sleeve. Otherwise he was unchanged: he retained his Indiana twang, a dignity Midwestern rather than British. He taught high school for a year in Indiana, went to Manhattan and a $10-a-week job with Adventure magazine, doubled his salary by moving to the New York Times...
Davis at Work. OWI's front man, still solid and sensible, has kept his old habit and attitudes. He had trouble getting used to a secretary, often typed out his own letters in the uneven, x'ed out style that is the mark of a working newsman. One night an OWI underling, faced with an emergency call for an advance copy of a Davis speech, wandered through the dark, empty hallways into the executive offices, found a tired man in shirt sleeves picking at a typewriter with two fingers. It was Davis at work. The underling asked...
These 150 men were the seventh class to be graduated from the Army Air Corps Statistical School since the war started. The second lieutenants will become administrators of military airfields all over the world. They have earned the nick-name of the "Singing Satisfactions" because of their habit of singing as they marched to and from their work...