Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elementary grade. He is a Bachelor of Arts only by courtesy, and strictly speaking, no more entitled to hold a degree than before he entered college, however much law or medicine or business he may know. And the chances are that at about this time he begins to wonder if the facts which are really of lasting importance are not those he has forgotten. F. O. BARTLETT...
Edward VII as an adipose angel complete with lyre or as the fat-man wonder at a circus...
RAIN?Jeanne Eagels knocks the spirit of the blue-laws for a row of foreign missionaries in a gorgeous reductio ad absurdum of inbred Puritanism, accompanied onstage by a tropical downpour that makes you wonder why you forgot your umbrella...
...Hart's "School History of the United States" the statement that Samuel Adams "was a shrewd, hard-headed politician", and from Professor D. S. Muzzey's "An American History" the following passage: "A debatable question, namely, whether the abuses of the king's ministers justified armed resistance". Small wonder that Commissioner Hirshfield urged that these books be banned, for what school child reader of such partisan statements could ever resist the temptation to fly at once into the arms of the British Empire...
...these fellows are baritones and bassos, who are notable for being devils hard to kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died, was esteemed a wonder because he had a voice left at that age, although it had sunk to a high baritone. The tenor throat is a delicate instrument that survives few misfortunes, least of all that of time...