Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been his wont, Secretary Mellon, reporting to Congress on Federal finances for another fiscal year (1928, ended June 30), reviewed the progress of private business and finance in the U. S. during the same period...
...child of the rich may enter the school. But many a half pagan urchin, wont to roam wildly in the Georgia hills, has been received. There are 7,000 names on the alumni list of the Berry Schools...
Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...
...replaced famed "Tad" Jones of Yale. Brown, lithe and shy. "Mai" Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played for Washburn college, in Kansas. In his senior year at Yale he was ineligible ; later, he was wont to divide his time between medical school and backfield coaching. Last year he was Jones's assistant; this year he is the youngest of the important coaches and, since in football the cart goes before the horse, not the least likely to draw his team to November triumphs...
...Well, there's one thing about Big Bill Thompson," Chicagoans are wont to say, "and that is that he never grafted...