Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your inquiry relative to recently enacted legislation. . . . Those who favor it . . . are those who profit by it. Those who are indifferent are so in ratio to their ignorance of what is happening. Those who oppose it do so because they . . . are cognizant of what is going on. . . . I wonder about the social security of any or all of us when the Government penalizes thrift, ability and industry; and seems to place a premium on extravagance, the shiftless, the mentally, physically and morally unfit. . . . I wonder concerning your place in history, Mr. President. Will your place in history be that...
...class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
...often wonder what you learn at school. If you did your lessons properly you'd know Rabbit is afraid simply because he is running and not running because he's afraid. Everybody in my court knows the James-Lange theory of the emotions...
...Landon says modestly: 'It was easy. We just decided to do it and we did it.' " The 48-year-old subject of these eulogies is also something of a nine-day wonder to the G. 0. P. directorate as well, for he was the only Republican elected to an office higher than Representative in both the New Deal landslides of 1932 and 1934. On the record, Governor Landon might claim to be currently the Party's ablest vote-getter. Governor Landon's chief distinction, that of being a Great Economizer, has already been developed into...
...time. Brain trusts are unwieldy things at best, and still have not the wisdom of one G. H. Smith, "Hoping you will find this original service of mine of some real aid to you, I am, Very sincerely yours, G. H. Smith." "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all h knew...