Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read your article, "Mistresses & Matrimony" in the issue of May 15 with some interest and not a little wonder. It is easy enough for New York State to give its judges "wide discretion" to "modify alimony payments.'' Perhaps the legislators who passed the law will soon pass another law making it possible for women to earn a living after their husbands have left them and their children without support. It has always been difficult for women to find adequate jobs open to them in a man's world. It is considerably more difficult in the past...
Senator Robinson: "If defalcations of bank presidents are common, no wonder the people have no confidence in banks...
Many undergraduates, when reading the list of nominees for the Student Council published today, will indulge in some brief, quiescent wonder as to just what this organization is; others will know, and will cast the column of names aside after a glance. This lack of knowledge about the Council, and this indifference to its proceedings, are founded equally on just and reasonable grounds. During the last year, which may be taken as fairly representative, it has done little, and what it has performed has not been of a nature to attract the attention of the College. It has quashed...
Harried by three years of bad business. worried by falling profits and mounting deficits, little wonder that the 1,200 businessmen conventioning in Washington were eager for anything that promised better conditions. Certainly many a man had in mind a better set-up for his industry, this or that needed thing which the industry had not done for itself, which might be done by the Government. For that hope, the Chambermen voted. But did they understandingly vote for Revolution? (Only the big word, "revolution." adequately expresses the opinion of many an observer both native and foreign, concerning the present trend...
...inclined to wonder just what they have managed to say themselves. A total editorial force of eight has produced two book reviews in the last six months, and nothing else. To be sure there has been the editorial column, filled with announcements, and two windy manifestos about the deadness of Harvard and the need for the Critic, but further than this criticism is wholly negative. Where do they stand, these editors who damn at once the aristocracy, who pay their dues and take their D's, the middle class, who find their sex at Radcliffe and Wellesley, and the working...