Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edge of New Jersey, seeking the President's support for a proposed survey of the Panama Canal and the often-discussed Nicaraguan canal route. Senator Edge assured President Coolidge that the capacity of the Panama Canal would be overtaxed within ten years...
Uneasy lies the head that wears a senatorial top-hat or even a mayor's derby. The politicians that really have fun are the big frogs in small side-puddles. But often the splashing of such frogs becomes notorious and higher authorities investigate. So it was with Maurice E. Connolly, who splashed as President of the Borough of Queens (appendage of New York City) from 1911 until last week. President Connolly's notoriety, like that of many another discredited municipal official, arose from his city's sewers...
Sturdy, moral, beef-consuming Britons know who Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is-know her as a famed "militant suffragette" who smashed windows, was often arrested, and repeatedly hunger-struck until British women won the vote...
Thus spake immortal Albrecht Dürer who could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable...
Over the rough and tangled places of the hemispheres trains of men with beasts of burden have forayed during the past winter, as often for sport and recreation as for science. Rich men have vied with institutions to explore, and have made the hardy trips themselves. To do so has become a new fashion...