Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soberer Sue. In Philadelphia, when her boy friend was charged with evading the draft, Susan Cole, once billed by carnivals as Sober Sue, the Mirthless Marvel ($100 if you can make her laugh), muttered: "The way I feel ... I could raise the ante...
...unless by some marvel rare evolved Forever folded from all idler eyes Silent and secret still it treasured lies Whilst mine goes winding onward...
Married. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 37, ex-wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney; and Corporal Josiah Marvel Jr., 37, ex-politico; in Wilmington. A Democrat, he missed the Governorship of Delaware by 700 votes...
...University of Kansas (where basketball was introduced by its mentor the late James A. Naismith) last week showed the hoop-eyed world something to marvel at. Its team, coached by Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen (Naismith's star pupil), who has won the Conference championship in 18 of the last 25 years, took on three teams in one evening, and trounced all three-the North American Bombers of Kansas City (45-to-36), the Rosecrans Field Flyers (71-to-22), Camp Crowder...
...ears. She wrote: "When I consulted my husband, he remarked that I had disturbed no one by my knitting at far more difficult and technical lectures at the Universities of Oxford, Chicago, California and Harvard and that, therefore, I might assume that I would be giving no offense. ... I... marvel that anyone should wish in a world so full of mountains of hostility to magnify so grandiloquently so petty a molehill...