Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very obviousness of this fact must cause one to stop and wonder if a politician as astute as Governor Smith could have so conspired to slaughter his own chances. Can it be that he has divined a change in the attitude of the general public toward the rigidity of the Volstead Act? Mr. Gompers, pleading the case of repeal before him, claimed to represent a more or less mythical four million voters, and it is becoming more and more apparent that in the East, especially in the cities among the laboring classes and the upper classes, there is a strong...
...political upset in-England causes many a staunch Conservative to wonder dubiously whether the apple which taught Newton the law of gravity could have been a Baldwin...
...Wonder. Lord Byron seemed to find it otherwise.) His intermittent polysyllables, recurring everlastingly along his fluid lines, at first amuse, but habit gives them a likeable distinctiveness; and certainly for suavity they lend an air of dignified austerity. If Mr. Robinson could claim to be American's first poet before he wrote this latest book, he still can claim that honor--although one questions if his title to it will be increased by "Roman Bartholow:"--for excellence at verse and excellence at portraiture alone don't make a poet. . . . And as for verse, what is it more than prose...
...Indians and a great number bolted for California at the whisper of the word--Gold. Ploughs were thrown down by the wayside and you see the creeping wagons divide into two streams, with the very few going northwest. And the arrival at the long sought-for goal is, wonder of wonders, portrayed in a very simple and unaffected manner. The first snow of the winter is falling as the exhausted group reach the lonely settler's cabin which is Oregon, and henceforth home...
...Commons. His classmates at the University had, it is said, a standing toast--"Here's to George Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor's official opposition...