Word: wonderfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Thank you very much for publishing my letter of recent date in your "worthy" magazine. I consider it a great compliment, but would appreciate your reply as to your reason for labeling it as "Humbug" and for leaving out passages which I considered essential toward bringing out my point...
It would be a wonderful, a marvelous, achievement if the student palaces so dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that...
The following apologia is typical alike of the book and the man: "If I have exhibited a questionable dead mermaid in my museum, it should not be overlooked that I have also exhibited much . . . about which there could be no doubt, and I should hope that a little clap-trap...
The gospal was never so charming. Other lady evengelists-older, less naive, more obviously theatrical-have argued the good cause before; they too have been moved to frensy before crowds which came for prayer and remained to discuss a personality. But none has so firmly established her message. Not without...
"Why do people steal, cheat, and kill?" he asked his audience. "Does punishment keep them from doing, these things? So far the world have always been poor," and with wonderful irony, "rich people don't go to jail because they are all good."