Word: wont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, the line is difficult to draw categorically between commercial swing and the orthodox "jazz hot," as continental "hepcats" are wont to call it. Therefore I claim the right to discuss even Sammy Kaye favorably, if I find germs of authentic jazz in his midst. If this be contradiction, make the most...
Smith was wont to ride into each town perched majestically on the topmost bale of a wagonload of cotton...
...jinx began to follow him six weeks ago on the night of the first lecture of the series. As was his wont he arrived at 8:30, a half hour late for the lecture. His sense of the fitness of things was shocked to find such a crowd assembled at the door of Emerson D that he couldn't get in. He heard only snatches of comment about "The Doll's House" and "Ghosts" and he vowed to break Vagian tradition and arrive on time the next week...
...gigantic Anschluss extending into this Atlantic iceberg, many Americans state that the United States' attitude toward Greenland must be the same as toward Canada. And even Mr. Roosevelt expresses the hope that the position of this island will cause Americans to think. The New York Herald Tribune, not wont to deify the Administration, applauds the President editorially and, with Greenland in mind, concludes: ". . . today, more even than in 1917, war threatens American interests. The only thing that can check it is an overwhelming victory of the Allies and the defeat of Germany. The United States must obviously face the possibility...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...