Word: wont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...
...thousand onthusiastic students jammed Sanders Theatre last night as the annual Freshman Smoker, starring Albert Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Hildegarde, and Buddy Hasset, 'wont off on schedule. under the chairmanship of George Kuhn and his Committee of eight Yardlings...
Some people are wont to consider such fire and smoke as dangerous to democratic procedure. Others cough and cry a little and move on their blithesome way. But there is still another group that knows that conferences come and students may go but arguments go on forever. This group represents the advance guard of any community. It knows that smoke, fire and noise can be something as useful as they are dangerous. It realizes that nothing embryonic is a success or failure. It knows that indifference has never won any battles and that debate is healthy as long...
...Beiderbecke, Bob Crosby, Art Shaw, and Benny Goodman are among those whose styles will be "illustrated" on the boards where Serge Koussevitzky is wont to tread. Part of the program will be devoted to original compositions by William Whitcraft '39 in the style of Count Basie and Duke Ellington...
...sunny California directors and producers have acquired a nasty reputation for the criminal way in which they are wont to treat old, well-loved fiction from the pen of artists. This criminal tendency, it seems, is something which the very atmosphere of a film colony induces, for, if the treatment of "Bob, Son of Battle" is any indication, Gaumont-British are also rank offenders...