Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided at the end of the first year that could not well do without TIME I am always interested in National and International politics-also other news features I like your brevity. But I do not like the mystery in which you enshroud many of your news items. I wonder why you can't boil the news down in plain English-in language the average reader can understand. Why all the display of more or less profound scholarship...
...York man. He found out in one year what it takes most of them four to discover. By a mere technicality--a little matter of three years' residence--Mr. Vandercook failed to get his degree, when, by rights, his unusual acuteness really entitled him to a summa. No wonder he left in disgust for the jungles of South America...
...evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
...over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went to Havana every winter like Mr. Snare could get around a course at all; but the more upstanding of medalists?they who had staunch freckles on the backs of their hands, and little red veins at the edge of their noses? tinkled tall glasses together...
...Receive baseball scores of the afternoon games. . . Chambersburg below looks like a picture under a Christmas tree, and we think of the kiddies at home and wonder if they are asleep. Throw kisses to Tom and Billy from the ship in the air. . . See lightning to the south. . . Crossing Pennsylvania and its beautiful farms but we cannot see their beauty owing to the darkness, but hope for better things tomorrow...