Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer any law of God which is binding upon us and that our only standard is our own taste of preference. If this is true, if there is no law of God which must be obeyed we need not wonder if our young people adopt 'companionate marriage' or any other suggestion. Judge Lindsey's advocacy of 'unmarried unions' [TIME, Jan. 24, Feb. 28] is publicly commended by college professors, writers and other well-known people, among some ministers of religion...
...Unknown (Lon Chaney). Although his penchant for weird roles has occasioned many a jest,* audiences are beginning to realize that Lon Chaney stands on a pedestal of Hollywood, the one actor dedicated to the serious grotesque. His most recent incarnation is Alonzo, armless wonder of a traveling circus. In reality a full-bodied man, Alonzo straps himself into deformity in order to conceal from a hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands...
Last week parents paid school term bills with a twinge at the expense and a wonder of their offsprings' futures. Teachers sighed over their final salary checks, for the study trip they could not afford. Alumni poured money into class funds, and school heads calculated how to ask for more...
...wonder...
What is this wonder-country? Can you guess...