Word: obsessional
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Bill Trent was a rent-collector in downtown Manhattan. Like most of his colleagues he eked out his salary by "shaking down'' tenants whose line of business was not strictly legal. His craving for women, liquor, gambling made money his obsession. Hard up, he shook down a pimp...
The Colonel's one ruling obsession is that all things, good or bad, happen in threes. Once at Latonia three accidents occurred. The Colonel offered 4-to-1 that not another mishap would occur during the meeting. He was right. If he has a bad year, he is sure...
Last week's was by no means the first intercollegiate rugby revived in the U. S. Since 1930 Yale, Princeton and Harvard have formed teams and played against each other. On the Pacific Coast, Stanford and University of California played rugby instead of American football until 1914. Last year...
Mr. Samuels' desire to give a lecture on this obsession of his is a fine idea. Upon reading this, let Mr. Samuels proceed to University Hall, find someone in authority, and ask for the use of some lecture room.
In an address entitled "Young America" delivered last week before the New York Herald Tribune's third annual Women's Conference on Current Problems at the Waldorf-Astoria, indefatigable Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt touched on one of her newest enthusiasms. "I happened to read a book not long...