Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps on both points M. Perrin has not looked deeply enough into the American character. Paris has, whether rightly or wrongly, through stage quips and La Vie. Parisienne, gained a world-wide reputation for naughtiness. This is no great wonder for in the summer, when emigration from the United States is at its peak, all good Parisians go to their watering places leaving Paris no longer French but almost American. The French who remain speak English, play up to the visitors, and give them at least half their money's worth. With such a reputation Paris naturally becomes a lode...
...view of all this one may wonder what induced his speech. If it was a sincere regard for the laws of the land, one might expect him, to show more zeal on his own part. Lingering soreness over the outcome of the coal strike settlement may have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform...
Bankers are led to wonder just what Shroder & Co. sees in the American acceptance business. It is asked, does the London house believe in the future of acceptances here, or is it simply determined to take over a remainder business here of which New York bankers are tired...
...Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
...workers, especially the miners who, for nearly a year have borne the burden of passive resistance, Stinnes's attempt to negotiate directly with France comes as a monstrosity. It is small wonder that his act of seeking French military aid against the workmen after previously endorsing a platform of "no compromise with France" is looked upon as nothing short of treason. The threat of doing away with the eight-hour day is alone enough to assure a fight to the death between dictator and toiler. What-ever the opinion of Germany's war-guilt, it is agreed that upon...