Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last score of years, American law-makers have multiplied petty regulations with such unrestricted ardor that the wonder is that any statute is obeyed without compulsion. Examples of foolish, needless legislation are plentiful. In South Carolina, the playing of pool or billiards has been forbidden. The prohibition of checkers, of cards, of tiddledy-winks may well follow. Arkansas has been considering a bill abolishing bathing in the waters of the state, and minutely describing the sort of garments appropriate for public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories...
...there is irony in this magnanimity of the Senate. The Dyer Bill, for the punishment of lynching, has been defeated; other legislation to improve the conditions of the Negro is not much in evidence. While their own children are being neglected, one may wonder if the spirits of the mammies will fully appreciate the Senate's generosity...
...doing nicely, thank you". The place of respect which the chapel holds, and the continuing good scholarship of those once on the "Dean's List" as well as Its incentive toward better work, are enough to brave the wisdom of the University's liberalism. We are inclined to wonder with the Yale "News", if "perhaps Yale's authorities delight in cobwebs", since the faculty hesitates so long before dusting out these corners...
...longer "articles", though ingeniously planned, are less easy to read. Though full of clever touches, they give time for the reader's laughter to pause and wonder. But one rarely reads the longer articles of any comic magazine. The cover is adept, and the mock advertisements so good (or the genuine ones so bad) that it is hard to tell which is what, There is no moral; but the society magazine, of which "Town and Country" is only one of a kind, gets its full and deserved dose of satire in this number. And the High Society that is mirrored...
...tradition which grows up around all "sanctums" and "holies of holies," that makes them doubly attractive on account of their very sanctity. At certain colleges, no doubt, half the lure of secret societies lies in their forbidden buildings; just as in an earlier age the vulgar stood in curious wonder outside the inner shrine which only the initiate could enter...