Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as so many of the courses which the intellectually inclined are wont to attend, occur betimes of a morning, in fact somewhere in the vicinity of 9 o'clock, to attend them makes it necessary to be an early riser. And here we strike a definite snag. The most important requisite to an early rising is fine weather. The urge to lie abed is considerably overcome by an overcast...
...times--gloats the statistician--six times as much money is spent annually in Mexico for the moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins at toreadors? In other words--where is their manhood...
...Army type, was Robert Flockhart (1778-1857). For 43 years he was a strange figure in Edinburgh streets. A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer. He was wont to dress in pantaloons, long, colored coat; wore a stock...
...evening as is the Vagabond's wont, he will go to the theatre--the usual Saturday function goes without saying. Just where he will go is a question, one which he can never decide until about 7.45 o'clock in the evening when the inexorable flying moment says "choose this--or this." Of the various choices "The Vagabond King" if he hadn't seen it already would present strong attractions--there is a slight discrepancy here for the perspicacious to pick out--and the same applies to "The Cocoanuts...
...when Cambridge was only a pleasant village lying between the University and the river and Boston was merely a thriving town, students and citizens of Cambridge were wont to use the Charlestown Ferry, or for variety's sake, they journeyed on the more round-about way of "Roxbury Neck." The ferry belonged to the college by a grant from the General Court and brought in to the University every year an income of about 500 pounds in New England currency, or 50 pounds sterling, a considerable sum according to the standards of the time...