Word: wonted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gait & Bro. was founded in Alexandria, Va. in 1802. In 1825 it moved to Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capital and began a century-long career as purveyor of jewels by appointment to the most majestic Washington society. Into the Gait store the great ladies of U. S. history were wont to drop and carry off valuable jewels-as much as $200,000 worth at a time-without so much as signing a receipt for them. There wealthy hostesses picked out $20 souvenirs to give their guests. When Norman Gait died in 1908 his widow inherited the store. She watched over...
...ideal known as free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires of his trucks, and attempt to root him from their community...
...have fun with in Texas is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder. As is his wont, he promptly gave everybody in the party a $20 Stetson hat. Born 53 years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder...
...Keith MacKane, researching profoundly as is the wont of inmates of Columbia University's Teachers College, tested and compared the intelligence of 130 deaf and 130 normal children in New York City schools. Last week he announced: "There is ... a superiority of the hearing children over the deaf...
...hear of an Austrian's breakfast consisting, of all things, "of a bowl of potato soup with whipped cream." If Kanzler Dollfuss prefers this kind of morning repast, his taste is unique and, therefore, news. But is TIME sure of its potatoes? . . . TIME generalizes, as it is sometimes wont to do, as to "limp handshake of most Austrians." Let me assure TIME that limply shaking hands is equally bad form in Vienna as it is in Keokuk, Iowa. An Edelweiss to you for "Eve of Renewal," barring minor details, the best write-up of contemporary Austrian conditions I have...