Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders through a marsh of political machination crossed by a sickly stream of uninteresting adultery...
...their needs or whims. The recent decision of the Supreme Court to this effect has been interpreted as help for home rule, as hope for quicker legal action in the future. To the farmer it can only mean getting out of bed earlier in the morning than is his wont, and to the trainmen, a mystifying schedule of changing times which endangers the lives of passengers and others. This was convincingly set forth at the trial of the bill for unconstitutionality...
...fourth annual season. Martha was the happy choice, had worthy treatment by the imported principals, the domestic chorus. All praise went to Musical Director Gaetano Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera talent will have its full opportunity in a circuit of organizations producing the masterpieces of music drama all over...
...importance as sovereign and arbiter elegantarium was emphasized again last week when the press of the world took front page notice of the fact that I was seen in Scotland wearing my trousers creased down the front instead of at the side as is my usual wont. Speculation is rife as to whether I will resume my side creases on returning to London...
...opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality of Deems Taylor's compositions to date (Through the Looking Glass, The Siren Song, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). A joyous, spirited and perhaps abandoned opera it is likely to be, if Poetess Millay has written as she was wont. Of burning her candle at both ends for the "lovely light" it gave, she used to rhyme. She has raced barefoot at dawn through the Bois de Boulogne, and elsewhere. When she married Eugene Boissevain, Manhattan importer, in 1923, it was with a fillip at destiny's nose...