Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tolerance and Prohibition. "I do wish they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
...such cases will soon come to plead for their speedy release. Hinton Clabaugh, Chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, has discovered evidence of the fact that the young men are already profiting by their position to enjoy prison life in the greatest comfort. One may wonder at the prosecuting attorney who was so active in their prosecution making such a careless mistake; one may hazard a guess as to the action six years from now of the Parole Board that promised not to release them; and the only answer seems to be the one immortalized on such...
...wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique...
...wonder if the blue jellyfish . . . out at Point Lobes . . . have kings of their own, big jellyfish, bluer and more transparent than all the rest−and do they have royal weddings, do you suppose? Maybe...
Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...