Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about...
...Emphatically, the Signora Sarfatti's biography must be read?if only because she is content to efface herself so often while the great Fascist thunders in his own words from her pages?reveals himself vividly in impetuous staccato phrases as compelling as those with which Napoleon Premier was wont to inspire and almost to hypnotize his armies...
Princes and statesmen are wont to attempt to immortalize themselves by founding societies and orders into which they can lure men of imperishable fame in other walks of life. The great Cardinal Richelieu, for example, practically forced Corneille and the famed clique of notables who frequented informally the house of Valentin Courart to allow themselves to be "incorporated" into L'Académie française, for the greater glory of "Cardinal, King, and Country." Last week Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, rapped out a few terse commands to his Cabinet, and lo, L'Accademia Italiana sprang into being...
...thought we might as well have a bit of sport while we were about it. . . . So far we've shot eleven foxes. . . ." British correspondents had not the heart to continue the story of aristocratic discomfiture beyond that point. Their despatches chronicled one final infamy: The Holmwood Huntsmen are wont to refresh themselves with "beer, coarse bread and strong cheese...
...debate former Labor Premier Macdonald cried: "These 12 men were put in prison after a trial conducted like a general election . . . after a most improper whoop." The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, noted die-hard Conservative, replied to Mr. Macdonald's attack less pugnaciously than is his wont. He remarked: "My attention haying been called to these Communists, their activities were merely referred to the Attorney General." Attorney General Douglas Hogg then rose and "accepted full responsibility" for the prosecution...