Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a world full of strange new opportunities, fall victim to the lure of whatever package has the prettiest wrapper. Two seasons usually suffice to prove to these newcomers that the contents of the carton seldom justifies the effort spent in untying the silken ribbons, but these two seasons often leave ineradicable traces on the health and dean's office standing of the seeker after truth...
...first time in my long career, I am embarrassed. Some time ago, in a moment of careless folly, I made a considerable wager on Yale to beat Princeton. Betting against Princeton has often proved economically unsound. Though it is great fun to make the wagers, paying them is not so pleasant. And today it seems to be on the cards for Princeton to mop up the Bowl with the Elis. If this eventuality occurs, the young Forecasts will go without footgear this winter and I myself will have to cut down to two cigars...
...conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force of a paw. His role was mere ritual. Often he pondered resigning, often refrained...
...often wonder what...
Finally came the grand, the fascinating, fiasco of Versailles, brilliant as so often before with the greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not agree in several vital points: he advised against Wilson's attending the Conference (lest he thereby lose prestige, etc.); he urged the political wisdom of including Republican Root and Taft in the mission; he favored more compromise with Clemenceau, and later the acceptance of the Lodge reservations...