Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thousands of old women stumble along roads and streets, talking to themselves, gesturing vaguely with sad, skinny hands. People who see them wonder what tiny, bright pictures of the past are in their minds, what futile furious memories make their hungry hands so restless. Last week, near Toms River, N. J., someone found Cora Carpenter, a tired crone, wandering in a forest, talking to herself in a low, serious voice...
...wonder what manner of gentleman Mr. Custis Knapp, U. S. A. retired, considers himself? Who is he to criticize Scout Leeds for correcting TIME in placing the Army and the Boy Scouts under the same head...
...following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers who, it is well known, sometimes pause to gaze in breathless wonder at their ethereal city...
When Winter Comes. But an even more disturbing question arises when the flood victims wonder what will happen to them when the Red Cross funds run out and winter comes down on the impoverished country. Said Mr. Barham: (above mentioned) : "I think it is the duty of the Government to do something. . . . Don't you think it rather childish, to put it mildly, to expect the Red Cross with $15,000,000 to handle the whole problem, the damage bill alone of which will exceed $500,000,000? ... I don't know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested...
...signed" story written by the celebrity whose signature is his only contribution to his article. Mr. Schuyler said that the newspapermen who do the writing that heroes sign are known as "ghosts." But, whatever they may be called, their existence has long been common knowledge. "I wonder who writes his stuff?" gibe even mildly sophisticated U. S. citizens when a heavyweight prizefighter or a matinee idol sets down the story of his life. The "I" story is part of the modern news-exploitation system; accepted as such without particular...