Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats of the East, conservative at heart, began to wonder whether the Rhode Island defeat could be used to swing Franklin Roosevelt on a rightward course. Said Senator Gerry of Rhode Island: "I believe this evidences a distinct trend against some of the Roosevelt policies, especially the processing tax. ... It was not a protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able...
...Since 1930 the average American has somewhat revised the contemptuous merriment with which he was wont formerly to regard us. ... The Americans are beginning to wonder whether we are all of us quite so stupid as we look. The French remain convinced that we are all of us far more stupid even than we appear. The Germans, in their pathetic inability to understand others, continue to believe that we are a race of brilliant and unscrupulous egoists...
Having survived Gatti's long regime at the Metropolitan, Maman Savage began to wonder what would become of her under brisk new Director Edward Johnson. In line with a policy of bringing pretty faces and slim figures into the old opera house, Director Johnson lately started weeding oldsters out of the chorus, putting some of them on pensions. Last week, however, "the world's oldest chorus girl" had official assurances that she was too much of a fixture at the Metropolitan to be dropped now, would be kept on at least for another season regardless...
Southerners may wonder that so amiable and intelligent a Negro as Mose should blunder into such devilish complications, or provoke such vicious enemies, but they are not likely to cavil over Author Rylee's understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes...
Hutchins Midway. No man could rise so high as President Hutchins has in half his life without causing the world to wonder what the second half may hold for him. Just now not even his intimates can get Bob Hutchins to say any more than that he is vastly interested in Education. Having launched a program which should eventually transform U. S. Education, he is brimful of ideas for extending and improving it. But, though he thinks with vigorous independence about educational problems, he is not primarily a theorist. The New Plan, as he has often pointed...