Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm has a perfect right to sell the Apocrypha if they so desire, but no one has a right to suggest to the public that they are something hitherto unknown. I wonder that you would permit such misleading statements to be made in your advertising columns...
...hard-earned money for their education, and expect passes, not flunks. In addition, athletes are under heavy obligations to the student body. They have been showered with adulation, and they are expected to play in the game, and not to get barred for failure in studies. Is it any wonder that some yield to temptation...
...then, with any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments but with a been realization that peace like the city of Romulus and Remus cannot be built in a day one is perpetually urged by the conditions of his age to wonder how best and with the least friction there can be maintained as a part of American education sufficient interest in and knowledge of modern warfare as to insure national integrity in whatsoever arises...
...umbrellas down," said a voice. Up and down the ranked lines, a mile and a half long, of that steaming host, black bubbles of silk obediently collapsed; bookmakers put away their last tickets; touts and tipsters, who had offered the winner for as low as a bob, began to wonder who would win, while lords, ladies, greengrocers, and "Barts" felt alike an exhilaration that shook them like a low incessant fever. The horses had begun...
...thing he laid his hands on (except those ships) turned into money. He has a dynamo of a mind and bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under its own momentum, with a buzz from him; small wonder that, still well short of 50, he can sit back as chairman of the board in the big new merger and let Thomas F. Logan...