Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...construction for the Allied armies, leaving Cromie with power-of-attorney to run the paper. From that status, Cromie emerged as owner. Nearly his first act was to absorb the conservative News-Advertiser, only morning competitor. Because he was without newspaper knowledge, Publisher Cromie was unbound by tradition or habit. He has made the paper as he went along, made mistakes, done surprising things. Personable, affable...
...Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt, and, oh, how I was laughing! . . ." In 1905, when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust...
...that much depended on general business in the South. Negroes are the largest buyers, but many a white man in the South uses snuff. New England is another leading snuff area. Many factories forbid employes to smoke; they turn to snuff. New England sales have increased as the snuff habit has extended to younger consumers...
...least may survive. Perhaps the cause may be found in that traditional characteristic of indifference which is said to be inherent in all students at this college. When there is no actual motive for trading haymakers with somebody, especially if you do not know him, an already acquired habit of indifference is likely to act as a double deterrent. This is particularly true if you suspect that you are being recruited as cannon-fodder for some fast-stepping varsity cauliflower vender...
Gary Cooper is at his best here as a carefree Legionnaire with the usual forgotten or unmentioned past. His habit of underacting is prominent, leaving a great deal to the audience, especially when Marlene Dietrich is in the same scene. These two are constantly leading the audience towards an intellectual understanding of the actors' emotions, and not pandering to their visionary sense alone...