Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases to wonder at the nervousness of men in public life...
...Jury. Propped up in their box like boys at a spelling-bee, the new jury gazed with undisguised wonder at chunky Oilman Sinclair, whose broad face expressed confident determination. "Any time the truth comes out it is bound to help," was still Sinclair's attitude, but he was pale now as well as jaunty...
...other U. S. men-of-war, bluejackets experienced successive waves of wonder, envy, anger, relief. In Washington, Navy officials were shocked, embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
...Learning may become desirable some time or other; I should not wonder if this were to happen out of vanity; more men may have leisure after a time, and will be able to devote themselves to occupations which are their own reward...
...undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...