Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day is generally, and probably rightly, attributed to the stir that was caused by Mr. Mellon's proposal for a tax cut. The Mellon proposal was one of the most telling political moves of the season, and its reception was a nine days' political wonder; to Hiram Johnson's Presidential ambitions it had more meaning than to William G. McAdoo's, because the proposal is generally considered a feather in Mr. Coolidge's cap, and Mr. Johnson must fight Mr. Coolidge in the Republican Convention...
...Haven, especially since the Yale man turned toward them his social side, anxious to promote that rational variance which ought always to exist between the two Universities. Our systems of government differ not a little: and the characteristics of life at Cambridge are at radical variance with theirs. No wonder, then, that we undergraduates often take issue with them; yet all ill facilities can be put aside by the exercise of cordiality and frankness. This suggests the fact that the Harvard men who were present at the game had an opportunity of seeing the city, besides the interior of many...
...liked Ibanez. I wonder if it would be possible for anyone to know him well. Like most men of exaggeratedly fertile brains, his real self lies somewhere very deep within. He tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life...
Quite similar to Yale's "miracle" system is this one now started for the first time on the waters of the Charles. Leader and Stevens both hail from the West, and it is small wonder that their crew methods should coincide in many important particulars...
...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But?we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...