Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister-at-law, dinner-eating has become a firmly fixed habit. Small wonder that British statesmen make such great use of banquets to deliver even the most important of their speeches...
...question is often discussed nowadays, and though the fact is generally accepted, there seems to be common agreement to overlook one of the principal causes for it. It is really no wonder that many people have come to think a college is nothing but a training school for safety-pin kings and toothpick magnates. Millions of broadsides are sent through the mails every year by dispensers of capsule libraries and vest-pocket universities filling people's heads with deadly statistics. One lure to success by the read-five-minutes-a-day method has this convincing argument...
...binding tie. But as later generations lose the memory of the old country, will sentiment continue to prevail? When the differences in outlook and needs, already recognized, grow stronger than the bonds of affection, dissolution of the Empire will become inevitable. Meanwhile, the world can only wait and wonder which force will pull more strongly: sentiment or self-aggrandizement...
After all, why not? Belief in a beetle god led the Egyptians to raise huge pyramids, the wonder of the world. Belief in his star of destiny led Napoleon to conquer Europe. Perhaps belief in a well tested fountain pen--psychologically soothing will lead the D-man to the broad beckoning plain of C. Try anything once...
...strong enough to hold one to his chin.* He disliked practicing. When he was ten, however, he won first prize in the Conservatoire at Vienna; at 12, the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire; at 14, he toured the U. S. with Moritz Rosenthal, was hailed as a "wonder-child." He returned to Austria for required general military service, returned to Austria again to sterner service...