Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games of the schoolboy,--class activities and group demonstrations as such--must of necessity be received with apathy--or the famous "Indifference." Just so long as the less acute persist in their endeavors, just so long will "Harvard Indifference" be spoken of by outsiders with curiosity and wonder. It is not remarkable. It is not even anything genuinely interesting, like a defense complex. It is merely the reaction of a group of men to something they consider tiresome and a little childish...
Continuing, he said: "There is no wonder why the Americans, Germans and Russians are not anxious to join the League of Nations. They do not appreciate our speeches. They know better...
Nerves. Probably when the discerningly competent John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are more experienced in the Theatre, they will look back upon Nerves and wonder why they ever did it. It originated as a one-act War play, was spread thinly through three acts and emerged as such an inexpert contrivance that the critics quite lost their tempers. The story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty...
Beulah Baxter, the "wonder woman of the silver screen," is omitted; Har old Parmalee, the languid leading man, bulges into an important part as villain. The remainder of the tale has been simplified and movie-ized. It remains a brilliant picture...
...Captain Nat announced that he had sold his shipyard, was retiring. Newspaper men in England rushed to Sir Thomas Lipton with the news, asked him if he would challenge for the America's Cup again now that his nemesis had departed from the seas. Said Sir Thomas: "I wonder if he really has retired for good...