Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few days, reading again in TIME and LITE the accounts of the annual American Legion Convention, I am moved to wonder (as I often have before) by what stretch of the imagination one could justify the cities where those brawls are held in allowing the roughnecks who attend these bawdy annual exhibitions in getting away with them...
...hear our American Legion friends prate of ''100% Americanism." and we wonder if this annual demonstration is their idea of that elusive condition, which most of them would have some trouble in denning. I think nobody would deny that if I or you got out in Times Square and held up traffic . . . the sturdy minions of the law would quite promptly and forcibly throw us in the Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts...
...several million books in time comparable to that of the Congressional Library or New York's Public Library. Alumni and visitors are awed by its murals, marble, and majesty, by its steps and circumference, its showcases and treasures. But, except at reading and examination periods, they may well wonder at the scarcity of students amid the swarm of employees and professors...
...these days of atheism, Communism, Hitlerism, and all the other "isms," the Vagabond cannot but wonder at the fact that the sale of Bibles still far surpasses that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office...
TIME readers will wonder why Bubbleman Bowman drinks top-hatted, barechested. In this picture Mr. Bowman is attending a fancy dress party, to which guests were required to travel by air. With two friends Mr. Bowman represented the famous three little men, which advertise Atlantic gasoline. On his hat is "Flash." The three men-"White," "Flash" and "Plus...