Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wonder why I am satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from...
...been put forward. Then why not adopt it? is the question in the minds of everyone when he has finished this book. And when we think of the vast sums that are spent each day in luxuries and pleasures and in building magnificent public buildings in insignificant towns, we wonder more than ever how long it will take Congress to awake to the needs of the country...
...deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never...
When one considers the amount of military news which has been filling the American press, together with stories from the Mexican border, it is no wonder that dramatists reach there for material. Augusts Thomas proves to be the present victim and in "Rio Grande," now playing at the Hollis Theatre, he shows his thorough familiarity with soldier life. The plot, which is a complicated one, deals principally with the married life of Colonel and Mrs. Bannard. The latter being much younger than her husband and finding an army post existence weary, has secret relations with a certain Lieutenant Ellsworth...
...view. There are songs and jokes and girls enough there to please the most blase, and the cast of principals could hardly be bettered. Not since Victor Herbert's "Red Mill" has a musical show of this order contained such tuneful melodies as Jerome Kern has written, and, wonder of wonder, "Very Good Eddie" has a really truly plot...