Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Would Roosevelt have acted in this way? Would Wilson have done it, or, for that matter Alfred Smith if he happened to be in the White House? But why should we wonder? Was ever a man with a Jewish name honored and recognized during the last Administration...
Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules. His body is graceful rather than Herculean, his face Attic rather than Theban. To him is attributed the glory of founding the Olympian games and it is no wonder that the Athenians represented him as more lithe, less ponderous than the deity venerated by the despised Boeotians. He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity...
...real wonder is the height to which American enthusiasm can toss a man from the very tip and foam of its intermost wave and, likewise, the abysmal depth of the trough into which it can forthwith plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been x-presidents. There are heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter...
...have heard wonder expressed," says the writer, "that the Herald-Crimson does not contain more items of college news, but it is fair to say that the 'Fact and Rumor' column is somewhat deficient in that respect. But who is to blame for this state of things...
...child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution...