Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these...
...legume to the effect that when the Galls disagree while can be expected of mortal man. So with the announcements of the battle royal now being waged among certain savants concerning the authenticity of the recently discovered speech of Moses on Sinal, the lay mind is likely to wonder exactly how much can ever be expected from its mediocre maneuvers...
...poor rulers; easily controlled by those clever enough, and wealthy enough to pay the advertising rates for propaganda; incapable of choosing able leaders, or making sound decisions on any but the broadest questions of policy. When the Machiavellian doctrines of the obscurantist replace the high ideals of democracy, small wonder that college undergraduates lose interest. International peace is almost the only field of thought remaining where ideals have any standing. If the Princeton conference represents an authentic manifestation of student interest in the world court, it is at least one encouraging symptom promising thoughtful, liberal leadership in the future...
...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...
Occasionally an undergraduate stops to wonder how much the college will mean to him after he has left it and passed into its wilderness of alumni. And sometimes it occurs to him that when the faces in the yard have changed and the buildings seem strange and unnatural that Harvard will forget him. At those times he fears that graduates' day will be peopled with an indifferent and a disinterested student body who have forgotten him and his friends, who are careless of the traditions which he once guarded...