Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented. If he has been accepted by the Metropolitan, he has been obliged to sing on the same stage with the greatest artists in the world who have poise and authority. It is no wonder that the young artist does not succeed...
When a man has surmounted the final hurdle and finds himself, much to his amazement, with diploma in hand, he begins to wonder--what next? Perhaps he is spared this decision by birth: some kind of a job awaits him because of family or connections. But perhaps, like thousands of others, he is faced with a free choice of career in which he hopes not only to earn his living, but attain so-called happiness. It is natural at such a time for him to think over the past and to try to figure out what his particular talents...
...Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could not afford to publish stuff sure of a small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings. If we may believe Laura Riding and Robert Graves, however, the punctuation and spelling characteristic of Cummings are not the delirium tremens of the type-font, but originate in a wholly grave effort...
Five days later the calm little notices came out in the Sunday art sections: "The visitor may well wonder if the artist is not more interested in men than he is in women as subjects for his pictures. . . . Use of silvery backgrounds is a novel feature...
...Dolly: I wonder if they take these conversations down. I bet they're funny...