Word: wonted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesus Christ!" she exclaimed as maids are wont to do in a crisis...
...stage. It is an inaccurate portrait," he concludes testily, "and it is even more inaccurate this year." All of which is most mysterious. We can understand assaults on St. Nicholas, whose ubiquity has cheapened the season's spirit, and on the scrawny puritan that well-fed Thanksgivers are wont to evoke. But why pick on the new year's babe...
...fireman's job is not the joyous round of pinochle games, maiden rescuing, and whizzing through streets that ordinary citizens, when forced to the side of the road, are wont to claim. He must answer calls in the most miserable weather, and if his beat happens to be Harvard, or another college, he can be sure that he faces heckling, flashbulbs in the face, and an agonizing spurt of low humor begun by the question, "Hey, why do you wear red suspenders...
Americans are notoriously apathetic when it becomes time to vote, a failing which curls the mouth of the machine politician into a broad smile, Perhaps the trouble lies in reasoning that one vote counts little: I wont' vote for X, reasons the stay-at-home, and Jones won't vote for Y; we cancel each other out. But while stay-at-home and Jones are listening for election returns, wellcoached interest groups are punching away in the voting booths, grinding out a victory over the disinterested...
...left the theatre, the Doctor discussed the disappointing size of his Boston audiences. "The bloody idiots here will pay $5 to see some swami pull rabbits from a hat, but they wont pay a buck to see a legitimate demonstration like mine. There's nothing phony about my show, but the fools keep thinking I've got a Dick Tracy wrist radio up my sleeve. I can't convince them that I'm not a fake, as long as they associate my work with fortune-telling. What we are trying to do is prove that the mind has great power...