Word: bethought
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...Smith College bethought herself, or was reminded, of Poet Pierre's 400th birthday last week. It was the first time an American college had so honored him and Poet Pierre would have swelled with pride to hear those professors and young women of Smith singing the airs of his period and applauding a sonnet written for the occasion in his honor...
Publisher Hearst, mindful of the patrimony he must one day bequeath George, W. R. Jr., John Randolph and Elbert Hearst, bethought him the time had come when the eldest son should learn to tend his father's journalistic flocks. So George, aged 19, was marched into the offices of the San Francisco Examiner, and introduced as the new assistant publisher, acting chief. This was thought proper and fitting because the Examiner's clientele was the first flock Publisher Hearst himself tended as a youth. He had it from his father, even as George now has it from...
...John B. Henderson of Washington, planning to spend the Summer abroad, bethought herself of a less fortunate lady, and offered Mrs. Coolidge the use of her private swimming-pool during the early morning hours several times a week. Mrs. Coolidge accepted and asked that Mrs. George Wharton Pepper (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones (Democrat, New Mexico) be invited to share the pool with her at the designated hours...
Following the passage of the Singapore Naval Base bill in the British Parliament (reported last week), the Dutch Parliament bethought itself of Holland's possessions in the East Indies. The more the perturbed Parliamentarians thought of the matter, the more they became convinced that a large navy is necessary to protect the Netherlands' possessions over the seas...
There is one case on record, however, where marriage would have proved decidedly less profitable than single blessedness. An American heiress was about to wed as English nobleman when she bethought herself of consulting the tax-collector. From him she learned that the tax to which she was subject as the wife of a foreigner plus that of the English government as a citizen, totaled more than her entire income. Result; no marriage. Thus Uncle Sam is not exclusively a match-maker; he is however, taking very much of a hand in the matrimonial relations of his nephews and nieces...