Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sturries, pomes, end ferry tails vot yu'll gonna reeding onder diss cower" writes Mr. Burbig in a foreword, "vas ritten by mine own hends, s'halp me Goldberg." After one has read a few of the "sturries etc" one begins to wonder. Was Milt Gross name originally Goldberg? If not, why does Mr. Burbig invoke that name? For certainly Milt Gross is the patron saint of this book, the captain under whose banner its writer has drawn his pen and whose exploits he endeavors, insofar as in him lies, to emulate...
...movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...
...story of "the wonder and the dread" of adolescence seems to be as perennial as the rather widespread and universal development of the child into the man. It is a topic which, indeed, affects most of us, and with which some author is always ready to deal; to lay bare the psychology of the youth as he gets his first glimpse of life in its various aspects...
Taken then, all in all, and viewed from the standpoint of what it is meant to be, and not what it might be, "Five Men of Frankfort" deals very acceptably with a story which can perhaps never fail to arouse the interest and to some extent the wonder of the reader...
...Wonder if I could do it with a paper cup. Yeah, a paper cup. Steady. Whoops! There, easy as anything. Look out. That's too bad. Lucky you got on the old topcoat, Bill. Sure, that'll come out all right. If it doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield...