Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertaining to wonder whether the four hundred followers of the Reverend Frank Buchman found copies of the current New Yorker in the living room when they gathered on Saturday for a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. The portrait of Mr. Buchman and the exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...beauty in woman? What he might consider beautiful no one else would, as witness what the majority of men marry! I challenge this brute to specifically define a beautiful woman. What are the ingredients-the formula? . . . Did it ever occur to this deep-thinking student of feminine loveliness to wonder why ugly women are ugly? That his own vain sex should take the blame would never enter his head. The ugly woman might well chant: Who made us what we are today...
...Fred is foreman of a big cotton plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...
...little strongly put. It does seem rather a poor commentary on the "land of the free," however, when its most representative citizen scorns the arm of the law and resorts to the help of gangsters and racketeers in getting back his child. On the other hand I wonder if August W. would mind letting us know whether or not he is a father...
...Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...