Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very great satisfaction," Professor Carver said, "to find a man who does not think in a fog. We really need some strict enforcement of penalties against, criminals and it is only a small cult of half baked intellectuals, among them Clarence Darrow, that has begun to wonder whether crime may not be, after all, a misunderstood form of virtue, that has interfere. Such men, to who any new movement is interesting and original, and a pernicious influence in the country an through their grasshopper like stridency have always given the impression that their numbers are much larger than they really...
...auspices. She has been conducting revival meetings throughout the U. S. following the startling endorsement of her methods by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y., who as President of the Federal Council of Churches carries weight as a Protestant spokesman. Dr. Cadman's endorsement made many wonder whether the seeds of Christianity are falling upon such stony ground that all the magic of modern publicity is required to make them germinate. At any rate it was certain that Miss Utley's promised "kick" set many to examining the rhythmical prose of ECCLESIASTES. Its philosophy falls strangely...
There were two large reclining figures, each on a huge base. "These was once together, 'Day and Night' or something'. Well, we had to cut them apart and spoil the story. I wonder how they ever got 'em in over there to begin with. Then, take this, its a bowler, or a walter heavin' dishes, I don't now." He pointed to the Discobulus with a slight welt on its chest...
Cambridge police still scratch their heads and wonder what they should have done the day the entire university-or so it seemed-issued into the streets and instead of disturbing the peace, added to it by reclining amiably on the pavements...
...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight...