Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secret of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no such person: there is only Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a kindly, bungling old carnival seer. But the resourceful Professor has a bit of homely chicanery for each of his applicants, gives them all what they desire. No children's tale is Hollywood's Wizard of Oz. Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe. Most of its entertainment comes from the polished work (aided by Jack Dawn's expert makeup) of seasoned Troupers Lahr, Bolger and Haley...
Today an average hen produces only 100 eggs a year, but a good hen lays 200, and 300 is no longer a marvel. Champion Te Kawau Princess (Australorp), of New Zealand, who died in 1933 in Holland, Mich., set a world's record in 1930 by laying 361 eggs in 364 days...
Sold at U. S. newsstands are about a dozen pulp magazines with such titles as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stones, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stones, Unknown, Marvel Science Stories, Weird Tales. In the pulp trade they are known as "pseudo-scientifics" or "scientifiction." This week in Manhattan this amazing group of publications produced an amazing show: a convention of their fans...
Last week Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y. announced a newer marvel which some day soon will make house wives grateful: preshrunk glass. A goblet made of this glass is so dense and tough (i. e., so resistant to expansion and con traction) that it can be heated cherry-red, then dipped in iee water without breaking...
Professionals criticize the free lances for using popular stereotypes (the "robot" Germans, the "individualistic" French, the "cowardly wops," the "bemused" Russians). They point out that before the World War the German Imperial Army was drilled to the teeth, yet the German mechanical marvel did not fall apart before the attacks of the "individualistic" French and British. Always good military technicians, the Germans teach their men infiltration tactics, stress individualist action by small groups of soldiers, encourage initiative all through the ranks...