Word: astonishment
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...Vagabond and The Friend had seen everything that there was to see in the distant corners of this Great Commonwealth of Intellects and now they were returning to the Yard for the Big Surprise. The Vagabond had been keeping the New Chapel up his sleeve waiting to astonish The Friend with its splendor. They had visited Adams House and its brilliant Early Eclectic purity filled the imagination of The Friend. Architecture can go no further, he thought...
...calling his wife Momma or cracking such a joke as "it won't be long now." Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile millionaire in Asia Minor as a preliminary to smoking imitation hashish through a gasoline pipe...
...pictures. Chester Dale spent so much time and money in dealers' galleries that he has become a dealer himself. In 1928 he bought an interest in the Paris art firm of Georges Petit. As a collector-dealer Chester Dale has a stockbroker's memory, can astonish professionals by reciting instantly the market history of practically every important picture of the past 40 years...
...modifications, for plane-power or other drive.* Several manufacturers have been experimenting with diesel modifications for aircraft. Some of their representatives were at Langley Field last week, attending the fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (initiated by President Wilson). It was to astonish their peers that Packard Engineers Woolson and Lees had flown the 650 wind-jostled miles from Detroit. It was to frustrate competitive inquisitiveness that they hooded their motor...
...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...