Word: wonted
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...life is to the high art of being legal. But it is not their consecration to be philosophers, and perhaps that is why, with the exception of Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo, the Court is fifty years behindhand in its political philosophy. The Roscoe Pound of a golden prime was wont to insist that law was in really social engineering; now he talks ponderously of the common courts and of their law which must chiefly enforce our security. When the arch-apostle of social jurisprudence has left his banner, what moulding, horrible depths of legalism must the Supreme Court contain...
...collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite M. P. and friend of Scot MacDonald. Whenever the Prime Minister grows excited about tithes, George Middleton is wont to declare firmly "Queen Anne's Bounty never prosecutes in cases of genuine hardship...
...crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time ago I toured the South with Cab Calloway--we played before crowds of these southern debutantes. They almost wont crazy over the hot stuff. Why, after the dances they used to crowd around us to get our autographs, and honestly, there was always more of a group around Cab, even in the South, than there was around...
...Pope Pius XI and his papal court entered Consistory Hall in the Vatican one day last week. There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College. As is his wont, Pius XI made reply...
...dear friends have never quite agreed with the Vagabond, but then neither will Anne-whom Aristotle would call the efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that Harvard men are not so attractive, amiable, and delightful as she was wont to feel. There is something about countless evenings over scrambled eggs and sausages in the Somerset or milk and ginger bread in the kitchen that tends to sap even the most vital girl's interest in vague, suave, sophisticated, even brilliant young men-of whom the Vagabond once...