Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard? He displays absolute lack of knowledge of the other five. During his college career he mingled with a particular group, belonged to that group--and to-day from that group position he attempts to give an idea of the college using that group as a standard. No wonder he deplores the Harvard product...
...regard to the last paragraph wherein he speaks of "an acute feeling of inferiority,'' I wonder if he is trying to imitate Will Rogers, he is SO amusing! The editors of TIME are Americans, and since when have citizens of a victorious nation ever had "an acute feeling of inferiority" when considering soldiers of a vanquished army...
Whalen Activities. Among the Whalen executive acts which made New York wonder how much was "stuffed shirt" bluster and how much exceptionally brainy management, were the following...
...American who comes to Oxford at the beginning of Michaelmas Term is likely to wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars...
Today such sardonic defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...