Word: wonder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Houghtons. It started by Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton being received in audience by Queen Mary. The U. S. Ambassador also attended the usual Pilgrims' dinner, where he did not make the usual speech. Said he: "Anglo-American friendship is not a tender plant. . . . I sometimes wonder if it were not well that it be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory...
...apprehension of beauty, there are two apparently conflicting impulses : The first is recognition, as of a face suddenly rekindled in the memory, that makes the mind welcome her strangest comings as foreseen returns; the second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract...
...back-drop, if he chooses to induce the Russian quality of the Fates in the person of the garbage man, how can it be called realism? As for romanticism, and the sentiment that "The Moon is a Gong is a corking love story", there is still more room for wonder. To bring a judgment to this individualistic play that might well be applied to such plays as Mr. Owen Davis's "Forever After" or such flapdoodle as "The Firebrand" is scarcely laudatory. But then Mr. Lawson does not feel that he can call it a great play, and it must...
...They went to the foul atmosphere of New York for this man Hayes. I wonder if they think they can pick up a bird like that in New York and expect us out here to believe...
Perhaps you wonder why such solemn puerilities as I have described are not laughed out of countenance. You must remember that freedom of thought is a serious thing. If there be a grain of truth in a ton of dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...