Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When numerous authors and producers including representatives of several well known dramatic associations, unite to form a Joint Committee Opposed to Poltical Censorship of the theatre; and advocate voluntary juries of impartial but intelligent citizens to pass on doubtful plays, we begin to wonder if some of the attacks on the New York theatres may not have been founded on fact; the Actors Equity and the others in the movement must know what they are trying to eradicate. Granting, then, that all is not as it should be on the stage, the problem of remedy inevitably arises...
...world harassed by wars and rebellions paused a moment in wonder a short time ago when this young gentleman changed hands for a consideration of some $700,000. Immediately began the workings of human nature. Hundreds of people who had not been to a gallery a dozen times stood in line and paid to see this painting. Some went because it was the thing to do if they wanted to be au courrant as to the color of the young man's coat; but more went, doubtless, out of a sentimental curiosity to see the painting which had commanded such...
...innocent mind it is a matter of wonder how a college of two or three hundred can send a team which can defeat a university of four or five thousand without paying a price which no institution dedicated to learning has a right to pay. An editorial recently appeared in one of our metropolitan dailies entitled. "Football as a national sport." Professional baseball is a national sport and one which we all enjoy. It is a commercial enterprise perfectly legitimate and calling for no defense. If football is to be a national sport in any such sense...
...advance; because the proceeds from the Corporation's services will, of course, be enormous. The profits are to be used in financing scientific research; in short, the philosopher's store--of a sort--has been discovered, for science has found a way to become self supporting. While we may wonder,-in a moment of jocularity, if all science will now rush in where it formerly feared to tread, if we shall see before long the Entomological Company prepared to say it with insects, for example, we cannot help approving of a plan that will make science prosper...
...this discussion is interesting--especially for those being discussed. One has something of the feeling of Mr. Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction...