Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadly speaking, though, Mr. Newman is absolutely right-certainly so far as concerns the newspaper critics. I sometimes wonder whether, strictly speaking, we have any right to be called music critics at all. At least nine-tenths of our time and energy is spent in writing appraisals of performances. The music, most of it, is not new, and what we write, when boiled down, amounts to but little more than saying that it was performed better or worse than it was the last time we heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will...
...wonder if you would be good enough to do the same this year? The book closes the middle of June, but any sermon sent before that time will be carefully considered...
...Your president termed the law school--and justly, I have no doubt--the best in the country. I wonder, does he realize that such a school as Prof. Barker was engendering would make law schools superfluous? For you know, a good playwright is worth more than a good lawyer...
...physical department, puzzled, is seeking some keen observer who can chart and explain this sudden disappearance of high living, this rise of ascetic and meager lunches. The men at Hemenway wonder whether such a spectator is not even now writing a book on the subject. Its title, of course, will be "The Weigh of All Flesh...
Coming from so long a line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign accent. At the age of 23, he joined the Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm...