Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonic to voters who have gone often to the polls, sedative to voters who have never gone before, is a book, published last week, by Frank Richardson Kent, eminently readable political pundit of the Baltimore...
Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...
...Bolshevik, might indeed cause hurtful boredom. But as the smart and sprightly Count spurs across Europe, tilting at Nationalisms, he conjures much novelty and wisdom from successive countries with the talisman of sly philosophy. And his spurs, as a gentleman's should, wound not half so often as they stimulate...
...Cuban has often observed that it is not always the most brilliant player who wins a tournament. In fact it is more often the exception than the rule for the special brilliancy prize to be awarded to the victor...
Hysteria, trickiest of psychopathic states, is an escape from reality, from conflict. Mrs. Morf it protected from the horror of nearby murder. For her it was too thorough. Others it protects from scolding, from efforts. Sometimes hysteria comes on involuntarily; often the man, woman or child (having observed its value) willfully scurries into it; more often the person tries to fight off an attack and, horrified, watches himself sink into contrariness...