Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Bostonians have heard what city councilmen a few of their number have elected they can begin to wonder just why the Democratic Committee so very nearly swept the polls. The fact that it was admitted to be "a contest of the politicians against the so-called reform organizations" makes the victory all the stranger. An answer to the rather vexing problem presented by the result, of the elections can be found in Mr. Frank R. Kent's articles in the World's Work on "The Great Game of Politics"; and in one word that answer is: "machine...
...some time now the East has been missing something. But it appears not to have known what it was missing until a California booster sent word, in the guise of a new wonder, that California weather and California people are still the finest in the world. It was Othello who remarked that "he that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all". Unfortunately the restless Westerner could not keep his cat in the bag and the East must recommence its yearning for the glory that is California...
...Schubert's Ave Maria. The audience sank back in anticipation, the committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year-old girl...
Books, we are credibly informed, have souls. So, in all probability, have houses, towns, vegetables, hair nets, tin cans. In the case of books, however, the situation becomes more acute. The soul of a book tends rather to force itself upon the reader. One is led to wonder what other qualities noble or ignoble the unassuming volumes on our shelves share with the existing lords of creation. Have books feelings, sensibilities, all those little emotional refinements which make of life so deli cate an adventure? No one wants to hurt a book's feelings. Are they sensitive? Have they their...
...groaned Lampy tragically, "we've become funny." The Blot moaned and turned his face to the wall. "But I have a plan," murmured the Ibis at last. "We shall rent the walk of Plympton Street and cause to come forth a mighty geyser, that he who looks may wonder!" Lampy spat into the fire and then nodded his belled cap in glee...