Word: bethought
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...Houston, Tex., authorities bethought themselves that criminals are criminals, and abolished the "State Honor Farm," from which 49 "honor prisoners" have already escaped this year...
Neither peers nor representatives, they had come to take the Japanese bar examination. When the papers were passed out to them they became disgruntled at the difficulty of the questions, and they are said to have bethought themselves of a way out of their difficulties as practicable as it was breathtaking. Having handed in their papers, it is alleged that they set fire to the building before examiners could grade them...
First thought was to declare a half-holiday and put the brooms away. Then some more brilliant upholder of the Commonwealth bethought him of the simple trundlers garage men use to shift cars around with. With whoops of glee the entire force raided the nearest garage and brought back a trundler each five...
...December, say rightly on page 21 that Smith College "bethought herself or was reminded of Poet Pierre's (Ronsard's) 400th birthday last week." But the head of the French department did not bethink himself in time to procure a bust of Ronsard to be duly "crowned," during the ceremony. A cenotaph was suggested but turned down. Finally, our professor rooted out of the Fine Arts department a bust that looked rather vaguely like Ronsard's, and it was duly crowned, with sonnets and period songs as you say. But the secret leaked out in advance; and rumor runs that...
Musing about books for the North American Review, a reviewer bethought her of Flapdragon. Said she: ". . . . has the game gone out of fashion with seasonable snow, brown bowls of ale with roasted crabs in 'em, and night-watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle...