Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dragon," a wonder play by Lady Gregory, the 21st production of the Harvard Dramatic Club will be presented next week. The first performance will be held Tuesday in the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge. Wednesday afternoon, the club will play at the Copley Theatre in Boston; on Friday again at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, and Saturday at the "Barn" in Wellesley. There will be dancing after the Cambridge and Wellesley performances...
...Morrison implies another great truth--the only knowledge really worth anything is that which we acquire by our own efforts. That which is supplied to us gratis in tabloid form will ever be found wanting when we weigh it carefully. In this connection one can hardly refrain from wondering how many undergraduates really become acquainted with the Widener Library during the course of their College career. Apparently very few, judging by the general ignorance of the special collections and the complete helplessness of the average student when necessity sometimes forces him to resort to the catalogue room. As Mr. Morrison...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has selected "The Dragon," a wonder play by Lady Gregory, for presentation this winter. It will be read tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 in the Phillips Brooks House at a meeting which candidates for all departments of the Dramatic Club are expected to attend...
...Dragon" has never been presented in America but was produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in Easter Week, 1919, with overwhelming success by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. At the time the press described it "as a fantastic, genuinely funny play in three acts, a wonder play of spell-bound princesses, of kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists...
...first thoughts are for his stomach, especially in these days when his pocket book is scarcely fat enough to fill it. When we must pay thirty cents for a ham sandwich, ten cents for a cup of coffee, and twenty cents for a piece of Washington Pie, we wonder if the days of highway robbery have entirely disappeared...