Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...
High spots in the 70-minute program, which Rudy had graciously consented to come out from Boston and voluntarily present the Freshmen, were the rendering of a song, "The Ghost of Dinah," by Ann Graham, platinum girl, the mimicry of Al Bernie, 14-year old boy marvel, and the singing and playing of the leader and the Connecticut Yankees themselves...
...last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
...simple peasants as curiosities; he believes in them, backs their earthiness to outlast such monuments as Manhattan: "In your subways, where now rumble steel cars jammed with people, will lie in lazy putrefaction rolling water, green and slimy. But somewhere dust-covered volumes will hold the glory of the marvel city, one and all, while the scorpions here shall crawl from their hiding, presaging rain to a simple folk who have no barometers. For simple folk never perish. Never ! They hide away from the crushing march of your progress. They are the wheat kernels of humanity, and the salt...