Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Charles Foster Kent, of Yale, collaborating with Henry A. Sherman, head of publisher Scribner's religious literature department, recently brought out a Children's Bible. This was severely attacked by Professor William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, who parodied Hamlet's soliloquy as follows: "I wonder whether or not I shall exist after death. Is it better to stick around a little longer or to try to win out by suicide ?" However, the Kent-Sherman Bible is considered the best in the children's field...
...like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should the X law pass." B was elected?did he die in 1900 or was it 1901? The X law passed?and is as forgotten as the names of Secretaries of Agriculture. "Vanity?...
Lake Michigan-in Chicago it excites wonder. (P. 26.) The peregrination of a duck hunting dentist...
These assuredly are wonders. A greater wonder still is the resource and enterprise of Rabinoff, who has adventured widely in the fields of music, with the first American appearance of Pavlowa, with the Boston Opera Company, with the Ukrainian Chorus. Another most authentic wonder is the endless philanthropy of philanthropists, who always crop up for the endowment of high and worthy projects...
Trilby. Inspection of this film makes one wonder why the movies are not convicted as a public nuisance. The producers have taken Du Maurier's story (which is not far from the fringes of the classics) and, wringing its neck, have served the dead body. The semblance of Trilby remains - but spiritless...