Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, for some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
...artists and in propounding his way of life he trespasses on sociology; and while Tom is trying to point a social moral (in effect: "Behold, we do, and should, serve youth far more nobly than youth was served yesterday!"), still he implicitly adorns a tale (in effect: "What a wonder that I turned out as fine a man as I am!"). They are on common ground-but going in opposite directions...
...Huck Anderson, at 50, finds it "charming" (and so it is) to remember when little Tar Moorehead (so called to pacify Anderson relatives) discovered the great impersonal world of horses, rats, cows, sheep, and tried to join it by eating grass. He has never lost the sense of curiosity, wonder and cosmic humor experienced by little Tar when he saw the bald drug clerk and his lean wife cutting privy antics. He recalls Tar's first frights, shames, loves, possessions, just writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying...
...career is significant because it is a career typical of this country, and of the demands of business upon art. "I was commissioned to go to Palestine and paint the life there to show what it is really like," said Mr. Cornwell to a reporter. Why, one might wonder, did not the commissioner of Mr. Cornwell send a photographer instead? Perhaps because no photograph could achieve that spirit, verve and easy romance that Mr. Cornwell puts into his illustrations. Unsuccessful artists sneer at him because he makes money, and has a studio in the Chelsea Arts Club, London. They forget...
...friend, B. C. Forbes, has been in the leadership of this educational movement for so many years that his work is thoroughly well-known, but I often wonder whether he really gets all the credit...