Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made for better things," he exclaimed. "If I had my life to live over again, I would never think of entering the clothing business. Medicine was the career for me. Why I meet some doctors around town that think me a wonder...
...accepted his labor and expressed its gratitude, but if it intended to do no more it should have made that fact clear to him long ago. To Harvard he gave the best efforts of his best years and Harvard, having accepted them, starved him into resignation. What, we wonder, would its teachers of business ethics have to say about such a procedure...
Then, though the moment whispered "Caution! You're on good behavior!" the evil genius of the French communists urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
...second Edmund Burke has arisen through the prophetic columns of the Century to discover a new group at work in the body politic: the Fifth Estate. This is composed of those "having the simplicity to wonder, the ability to question, the power to generalize, the capacity to apply"--verily supermen! Each of the old estates was welded together by social cohesion, ecclesiastical unity, economic community, or occupational amity. The nobles, the clergy, the middle class, and the press each have found their vantage point from which to act as a lever upon society. But can this fifth estate of intelligentsia...
Wrote Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post: "At a luncheon party of the sheep and the goats-that is to say, at a luncheon party where some were New Englanders ar.cl some were not-up spoke one of the sheep and said: 'I wonder if President Coolidge will run again in 1928?' ". . . Up spoke one of the goats: 'Well, you as a New Englander ought to know better than any of us.' Then another New Englander had this to say: 'Right after Mar. 4, 1929, Mr. Coolidge will become President...