Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harper's--"Nine Days' Wonder in York," by W. D. Howells h.'67: "The University of Paris," by C. F. Thwing...
...winter progresses we begin to wonder what has become of the scrub hockey series that gave exercise and amusement to a large number of men this time a year ago. To be sure the weather has not been favorable to hockey of any kind and at best there have been but two rinks available, one for the University squad and one for the Freshmen. Both these barriers are now removed, as winter seems to have settled down in earnest and the Freshmen play their last game next Saturday...
...authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet's "Book Agent" is too incomplete even for an Incident. Something ought to "happen" in the very briefest sketch. While the American book peddler is described with an effective sense of fun, his Irish colleague is not convincing. We wonder if Mr. Millet ever saw an Irish book agent in actual life. Mr. Sheldon's contribution, "The Endless Journey," is in the nature of Episode, and displays happy gifts of insight, humor, and expression. His Cuban in Wisconsin, who "doan' work, but just goes by," is a new type...
...inquire into the wisdom of such an ordinance, based as it must be upon a knowledge of what is best for the student body. We do not wonder even that the restriction includes the color of the ink. That the minds of a public liable to excitement should be inflamed by the announcement of a concert, or of a debate, on a placard printed in colors other than red and black, would be an offence against order. It is doubtless unwise that there should be any person in the audience of a College entertainment who is not a friend...
...once more with the help of all the family, reflecting on life in general, introduced to the Dean by Mamma's thoughtful letter. The Office again has the centre of the stage, showing faces old and new. Again we are compelled to loiter By the Way and perhaps to wonder it Lampy in one respect at least might not with advantage break with tradition and give us some cuts in his course on Puns, or hand over that line of work to the department which for the first time offers Arkaeology 1: A History of the Times of Noah...