Word: marvel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story: In almost every town, there is at least one building containing an elevator. In this small and dirty mechanical marvel there squats an old man, usually colored, holding in his hand a bit of frayed rope. When some citizen or sight-see-er enters the elevator with the desire to be hoisted upward, the old blackamoor makes a sad sound and tugs at his rope. Then there is a flash of light, a noise of grinding wheels, a draft of wind; with a slow, drunken irregularity, the rickety cage wobbles toward...
...their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long. The whole romance of it is that you know it must come to grief.' " The Crownes begin to come to grief when Tilli Van Tuyl persuades Norman to produce his play The Seven Dawns...
...Josiah Marvel Jr. Yale '27: "There is too much organization and not enough informality in the life at Harvard. I have also noticed that a man's club seems to mean more to him than the College, which may or may not be a good thing...
Senator Glass pictured the "vital interest" of any U. S. banking group whose transactions should be vetoed while those of another were approved. He could conceive how one foreign government might "marvel and feel aggrieved" when the State Department put an embargo on its bonds while officially attesting the high credit of some other nation...
...Marsters, a Sophomore back whose accurate passing has been the marvel of the spectators who have watched the Green in action this year. He also ranks as one of the fastest running backs on Eastern gridirons...