Word: wont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Happy lacked was the fire and dash--the aristocratic temperament--that must go with a lordly life. This was his trouble. As hippopotamuses are wont, he was mild and inoffensive, eating and swimming placidly through the years at Franklin Park without becoming in the least notorious...
...Dear God," I prayed-all unafraid (As girls are wont to be) "I do not want a handsome man- But let him be like Thee; I do not need one big and strong, Nor one so very tall, Nor need he be some genius, Or wealthy, Lord, at all; . . . (But) let his face have character- A ruggedness of soul, And let his whole life show, dear God, A singleness of goal...
...rich, and how it oppresses the poor." Douglas pointed to a proposed reduction in the federal tax on cabarets. Asked he: "How many workingmen go to the Stork Club, the '23' Club,* and other such places, where gay blades like the Senator from Colorado are wont to congregate...
When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society...
Disgruntled freshman scholarship applicants about this time of year are wont to repeat a Harvard legend of somewhat recent vintage. The story describes a supposedly poverty stricken young man, who, after a tear jerking visit to the scholarship offices, hied himself to Mt. Auburn St. and drove off to a Country Club in his Buick convertible...