Word: prone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must admit that we are prone to joke about the so-called "affectation" of the New Englander's speech, but I believe our remarks are made only in fun, and Mr. Norton does not mean to criticize. We realize that our speech is somewhat flat and our voices possibly raucous at times, and we hope that your possible irritation will give way to your good sense so that you may retaliate with a little good natured...
...superficial expedient will remedy this condition. We are only too prone to seek the immediate, only too averse to tracing the certain future results of our present acts. If we do not seek the permanent now, it will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
...choosing Bennett, I have not over-looked Abbot, of Harvard, whose work in an ordinary year would entitle him to a place on the first team, but whose baseball training proved a handicap when compared to Bennett, as it made him prone to a certain awkward and upward stretch of the right arm, doubtless the result of reaching up after high drives during the baseball season, and in view of this slight technicality, I have felt that Bennett, whose double arm reach and sternum stretch is without flaw in its symmetry, deserves the precedence. --Michigan Daily...
...prone to excuse the proverbial busy college student with classes to attend, lessons to prepare, letters home and otherwise to write, a thousand and one outside activities to attend to, and the necessary and desired amount of recreation to get in, when he so invariably exclaims, "No time for reading!" But just a moment: Did it ever occur to you that after all in this very busy life of ours we do somehow manage to squeeze in the things we want most? No dodging...
...prose writers have been disillusioned. They have discovered that strangers whom one meets at night--like the poets they have been staying up late--are prone to deceive; and that even young ladies who invite young gentlemen to week-ends are not to be trusted implicitly...