Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office of paunchy, sleepy-eyed French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, his friend and frequent counselor...
...blind faith had definite pegs to which it could attach itself; now when professors carelessly juggle millions of years in a forty-minute lecture, and pass from electrons to infinity in a moment's time, only to discover in a few years that they are wrong, is it any wonder that faith has for many become a dead letter...
Prosecutor Remy a large black box containing many Indiana secrets. One-time Governor McCray, now out of the penitentiary, wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career of James E. Watson by succeeding...
Even more than when they were schoolboys, the Old Boys (i. e. graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing...
...Burk, when he was a boy in Philadelphia, was sensitive to the extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that...