Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder how long it will take people to realize that no man has ever tried to give the public 'something better' and has succeeded. Real classics are written more or less by accident. No author has ever decided to write a classic, and succeeded in producing one. Shakspere wrote for a living. He took old plots, and fitted them for the members of his company. That is one reason why his characters are so realistic; he drew from life. His works were full of genius not because he tried to make them so but because he could not help...
Often it seems that Burns was right as we wonder with him "What's a your jargon of your schools?" Many men even graduate from college without a clear idea of the value of their four years' experience and some, looking back afterwards, have to ask themselves if there was any real meaning to the whole affair after...
...People wonder, when they witness the class of men that are sometimes elected to municipal office, whether the majority of people in cities want good government after all. Are they not really better pleased with a comfortable amount of slovenly work on the part of those that reign over them? I do not believe this is so. Making allowances for differences of opinion as to what constitutes good government, I believe that people want it, and that one of the greatest hindrances standing in the way of their getting it is the apparent impossibility of finding out what kind...
...always, when something new puts in an appearance, the "logarithmic table" of comparative fame in the last issue of "Vanity Fair" arouses the wonder why no one had ever thought of such a table before. Eight well-known critics of the arts were asked to assign to each of a list of two hundred famous men values from plus 25 to minus 25, or 0 when they could give no opinion. The average for each entry was then computed and tabulated. So now the art of individual appreciation of literature has succumbed to the onslaught of statistical analysis and scientific...
Meanwhile the orders are out, plans are being made, and every one is wondering how long the coal above ground will last. Apparently whoever is right or wrong the consumer is the one who is going to suffer--as usual. We sometimes wonder how long the "average man" will allow the whole farcical capital-labor obsession to continue...