Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...primitive tragedy of jealousy on a lonely North Dakota farm condensed into four acts and five characters makes doubtful entertainment. At the end the theatregoer finds himself gazing on a corpse, two people desperate from unhappiness, another a trifle crazy, a fifth? very old. The theatregoer is inclined to wonder if life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross-section of stark...
...Zane Grey, solid comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful and harmonious surroundings will be limited only by his income. We wonder if the research managers of large real-estate corporations furnish their young salesmen with charts something like this...
Many, doors around Harvard Square were locked with extra care last night and many tired students found sleep did not come as serenely as usual. There were many who were openly scoffers, asking jocularly "Wonder when the Crime will start printing on yellow paper?" but when night came with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers...
...make his third informal address from the south portico of the White House, this time to 500 delegates attending the 23rd annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters. To them he said: " I wonder if you had a chance to stop and think of the real importance of the service you are performing. ... Civilization, I might say, rests on it to a very large extent...
Christopher Columbus IX, Duke of Veragua, direct descendant in the ninth generation of Explorer Columbus: " The Chicago Daily Tribune alleged that its correspondent in Madrid asked me for a message to America on Columbus Day, that I replied: 'I wonder what Grandfather Christopher would think of America today. If he could cross the Atlantic on the great Leviathan, see Panama and other wonders of the American continent, he certainly would be thrilled...