Word: wonted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton and the redoubtable G. B. S. came to words over the relative merits of different types of breakfast foods, they indulged as is their wont, in the discussion of a very serious and vital subject. Mr. Shaw recommended fresh fruits and cereals, which had been demanded by Americans in London, and which contrasted sharply with the traditional British breakfast of bacon and eggs, or some other kind of meat, supported by Mr. Chesterton...
Apparently this is a game which no statesman can afford to neglect; its influence on the destinies of man deserves more profound contemplation than our comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
...Freshman Dormitory Commons. But our Freshmen today have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
...direct contrast to this is the situation at most other colleges, even those whom Harvard men are wont to believe most like their own University. Yale and, even more clearly Princeton and Dartmouth, regard minor sports from a point of view that is entirely foreign to the orthodox Harvard undergraduate; the latest news from New Haven only serves once more to emphasize the popularity of minor sports in other centers As a result of all this, these other colleges are prominent in those very sports, which, to an extreme devotee of athletic success, have long been a reproach...
...Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed" and it was found, much to the chagrin of romanticists, that there was no evidence of a race of web-footed gentlemen who were wont to use their feet for sun shades...