Word: bethought
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Surfeited by whole years of public adulation, Signer Mussolini bethought himself suddenly last week of perhaps the most unnoticed and retiring woman in all Italy...
...register was invented in 1879 by James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, saloonkeeper. He was bothered by his bartenders' sticky fingers lifting undue moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days...
Lately Hoff came to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Osborne looks out through his spectacles at some pupils he is instructing in a Florida school. Since landing, Hoff has done some running on indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...
...orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth corsages of violets, hurled them at pretty Mary Lewis, hurled so many that she and genial Edward Johnson had difficulty in gathering them all in, had no place to put them until they bethought themselves of Mimi's apron and filled that...
Quoth emotional observers: "Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag...