Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certainly the rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view...
...menaces as he orders dispersal of the crowd, and when this official happens to be a leading member of the law firm which has been hired to defend a negro identified as assailant of a white girl, who can answer for the safety of the foolhardy man? No wonder he was about to have been lynched...
...then talked about the possibility of ratification by the Senate. Mr. Lansing said: 'I believe that if the Senate could only understand what this treaty means and if the American people could really understand it would unquestionably be defeated, but I wonder if they will ever understand what it lets them...
...declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from her and an indemnity imposed which was greater relatively speaking than the one demanded today. France...
...steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced to descend, still less of being picked up, and a safe landing next to impossible...