Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said The Club Fellow*: "Ruth Pratt is a wonder! Other mothers of growing sons and daughters marvel at her energy. Fancy a woman running for Alderman of the 15th District and between runs preparing for the début of a daughter! Yet the dance at which Sally Pratt will make her bow to society on December the Thirteenth will be as spiffy as the party given for any other girl launched during the holidays...
...life is not postponed until the real business of life is entered upon, but is seized at once. Success--the bright star of every ambitious man--already dazzles his eyes. Success he must have now. And since popular clamor is taken as the measure of success, it is no wonder a student is often misled to seek it in those paths which bring immediate recognition from his fellows. Who is branded the college failure? Not the poor student, though he may be that too. He is branded a failure who goes through college unnoticed and indistinguished from the crowd...
...country where only oil can cause a member of the cabinet to slide in or out, the inniability of French cabinets is a constant wonder. So there is considerable worry on the part of some people who were put a case by the Peace of Locarno when they find the resilient M. Calleux bouncing forth from the chair of destiny. Yet to them one can only commend remembrance of the many times that French cabinets have been made and remade since the beginning of Post War ministries. In fact to the careful observer, and an American should be that, nothing...
...yourself you can read the title and figure out the theme. Waiters and grand duchesses are not normally companions. When they are you wonder why. Alfred Savoir attempts to answer the interrogation. Only in one act is his reply amusing...
...Blind Pigger." "When he handed it to the narrow-minded gang I bet you a fin he meant the damn Prohibitionists. I wonder if he takes a drink once in a while...