Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampden is graced with a full company of capable actors, and though his own art is great, it does not out-shadow the rest of the company, as stars are wont to do There is no great chance for art here: it is the whole-heartedness, the vigor, and the liveliness of the whole cast that makes the play so appealing. If the humor seemed to drag in spots, it was only because it needed a responsive audience to echo it and buoy it up. There was plenty of it, spontaneous and without archaism. For settings, which required frequent shift...
...library officials request an editorial censuring the gentlemen of Harvard who, on these cold winter nights are wont to assemble around the tables in the Main Reading Room and pass the time in the delights of conversation and disputation. Referring to the records of this column we discover that during the last three years a similar request has come from Widener at exactly this time of year. That would lead us to assume that there is something in the nature of the student which makes him react to the depressing influence of impending examinations by exercising his right to fellowship...
...these days of street cars and automobiles there is little indeed to connect Boston with the City of the Faithful-- Bagdad. Nonetheless the spirit of the Arabian Nights is with us still, Who does not recall how the Sultan, Harounel- Rashid accompanied by his trusty Vizier was wont to slip out of the palace gates by night and wander over the city, seeing how matters fared with the people. Or how, on the morrow, from his high throne he meted out reward and punishment to those whom he had found meritorious or wanting on the night before. Thus was justice...