Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American legend; and every newsie could outline its cogent paragraphs: ran away from home in Philadelphia at the age of eleven to sell newspapers in Manhattan; back to Philadelphia to sell soap for his father; into the towns of eastern Pennsylvania where he came to be known as the Wonder Boy Salesman; finally to Chicago, where he peddled more soap, then baking powder and then, because he found it more profitable, chewing...
...fighting men. Perhaps we are a part of his standing army. When I think of the Deficit and Mr. Hoover's problems and the thoughtless waste of money on the undeserving, and the waste that goes on of materials in government kitchens, etc., the excessive personnel, I wonder how it can be. It is astonishing. The mess hall is accessible to outsiders, little or no check-up being made on those who come in to eat. . . . This looks like disloyalty to those who have acted in my interest instead of the taxpayers. But I have no sense of loyalty...
...Chapman Catt, famed feminist, told newsmen: "I do not know much about the Manchurian situation, but from what I gather there is some mysterious cause for it all that we Occidentals cannot understand. . . . Incidentally, somebody has to spank Japan and China for the way they have been acting. I wonder how that will be done...
James Henry Breasted of your front cover (Dec. 14) is an odd-looking man. I wonder how many others will tell you: "He got that way by degrees...
Today, all the Vagabond does is to wonder. Yet from his vantage point of perpetual youth he can think back into the generations of men who never stopped to look inside themselves, to know why things happened as they did. When the country was first young, when men fought with nature for his life and his home there was no time for this analysis, which paralyses the will. Later when nature was harnessed to the iron wheels of industry there was still no time for such thoughtful folly, because one man was busy fighting another for the power which...