Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...
...Thursday and by today in his course on German literature he is well into the Romantic movement. I plan to go to the Germanic Museum at 11 o'clock to hear him discuss Tieck and Wackenroder, two of the most important figures in the Sturm and Drang period. I wonder just how many courses offered by the University treat some phase of the Romantic movement; the ghest of Jean-Jacques must be mightily amused at his new tound academic dignity...
...partial tutorial system of this great institution of true learning furnishes a fitting background from which the Student Vagabond will set out to attain his end. Such liberal tendencies in the field of education as the one mentioned above are being instituted daily the country over. We sometimes wonder whether Cornell is keeping pace with these modern conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student Vagabond. The student Vagabonds are with us but their excuse for existence is quite different...
...miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...
...peace offering the last time he came back from a short business trip to New York and preferred blindes. The insignificant from--will hurry to tell Mr. Blank how she had read his verse while a college girls. He will look at her and believe the college part but wonder the rest. And the one from North Hampton will try to engage him in a minor flirtation which will at least amuse her husband and probably send a poet and a Butter and Egg Man out in search of a drink...