Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congratulating Dr. Curtius, I cannot help but marvel at his children's unusually fast growth. My probable reason for noticing this error (if error it be) is that I was very much amused at your first description of family man Curtius and his bachelor friend. Brüning. Though a "bungler" and lacking genius, you must admit that Husband Curtius is no ordinary man, according to the above statements...
Although some people marvel that the overlord of Zion City is worth $10,000,000, he clearly stated this upon his arrival last week in Manhattan. "Certainly I'm worth $10,000,000," he cried. "I own everything in Zion City-the factories, the land. I made $100,000 last year out of my Zion fig bars alone. I have 26 departments in my department store. Any manager who doesn't make a profit I fire. I am 61 and in the prime of condition. I do the work of twelve men. If you stripped...
Magic Carpet. After this announcement, the only thing observers could do was sit back and marvel at the good fortune which had brought such a Report to Herbert Hoover. It was not a mere political platform, nailed down to girders of decision and principle. It was a magic carpet upon which any candidate for the Presidency in 1932 could fly now East, now West; now Dry, now Wet. Had President Hoover been so overweening as to ask Chairman Wickersham for a politically ideal report, Chairman Wickersham could not have complied more skilfully...
...played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
Elected. Charles Anderson Boston, 67. of Manhattan; to be president of the American Bar Association, succeeding the late Josiah Marvel, of Wilmington. He is a member of the American Law Institute, committeeman of the New York State Bar association, vice president of the New York County Lawyers Association...