Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman, when confronted with an issue of public policy, is truely able to express his true opinion by the simple expedient of marking a cross on a slip of paper and this is particularly true when the question carries various implications as referendum questions so often do... Small wonder it is that under such conditions the voice of the people turns out to be a babel of discordance like unto that which was heard on the plain of Shinar when men sought to build a city whose tower should spike...
Your article seemed so vivid that I am moved to wonder upon what it is based...
...Captain invited him to come and see these things for himself he accepted the opportunity with prompt good taste. All last week he was rushed around Manhattan. Men with papers and pencils in their hands kept pointing things out to him and waiting to see the mist of wonder rise in his face. They made him go through a door with four sides that spun round like a trap and, of course, he got stuck in it-that was what they seemed to expect of him. They asked him what he thought of the women he saw. "They have naked...
...Arnold Bennett, who did not go to college, is in favor of a college education for authors. Robert Hichens wrote me: 'I nearly went to Oxford, and my two brothers were there. I wonder if I ought to regret not having gone...
...time, indeed of this time too. Only a few pages are necessary to convince the reader that here is no hoax like The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, published last winter by a whimsical Irish girl. Nor is there room left for wonder that this lady's descendants should have kept her journal in locked bureau drawers all these years...